Potential geoarchaeological sites for luminescence dating in the ganga bhagirathi-hugli delta, West Bengal, India

Geochronometria

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 282-291

  Rajaguru, Sharad N ^a   Deotare, Bhaskar C ^a   Gangopadhyay, Kaushik ^b   Sain, Malay K ^c   Panja, Sheena ^c  

^a Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute Pune   (India)

^b Eastern India   (India)

^c VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Alluvial archaeology; Buried sites; Delta; OSL dating

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155130105     PISSN: 17338387     EISSN: 18971695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s13386-011-0041-6     Document Type: Article

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