Holocene paleoenvironment (∼7200-4000 cal BP) of the Los Castillejos archaeological site (SE Spain) inferred from the stable isotopes of land snail shells

Quaternary International

Volumn 244, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-75

  Yanes, Yurena ^a,b   Romanek, Christopher S ^c   Molina, Fernando ^d   Cámara, Juan Antonio ^d   Delgado, Antonio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEPOSITION; NEOLITHIC; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SHELL; SNAIL; STABLE ISOTOPE;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

CERNUELLA; GASTROPODA; RUMINA DECOLLATA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 80053179840     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.031     Document Type: Article

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