Dating the Lascaux cave gour formation

Radiocarbon

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 479-500

  Genty, D ^a   Konik, S ^b   Valladas, H ^a   Blamart, D ^a   Hellstrom, J ^c   Touma, M ^a   Moreau, C ^d   Dumoulin, J P ^d   Nouet, J ^e   Dauphin, Y ^e   Weil, R ^f  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b Centre National de Prehistoire   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d CEA SACLAY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; AGE; CALCITE; CALIBRATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; CHARCOAL; DATA SET; DATING METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MATTER; POND; PRESERVATION; RESOLUTION; SEEPAGE; SUCCESSION;

AQUITAINE; DORDOGNE; FRANCE; LASCAUX CAVE;

EID: 80052883776     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200034603     Document Type: Article

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