Middle Palaeolithic human occupation of the high altitude region of Hovk-1, Armenia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 27-28, 2011, Pages 3846-3857

  Pinhasi, R ^a   Gasparian, B ^b   Nahapetyan, S ^c   Bar Oz, G ^d   Weissbrod, L ^d   Bruch, A A ^e   Hovsepyan, R ^b   Wilkinson, K ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Armenia)

^c YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^e HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caucasus; Middle Palaeolithic; Palaeoclimate; Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SIGNALS; ARMENIA; CAUCASUS; ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; FORMATION PROCESS; HIGH ALTITUDE; HOMININS; INVERSE CORRELATION; LAST GLACIAL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; PALAEOCLIMATE; PREY SPECIES; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS;

CAVES; EMPLOYMENT; STRATIGRAPHY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ALTITUDE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CULTURAL HISTORY; DATA ACQUISITION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HUNTING; MEADOW; MOUNTAIN REGION; OCCUPATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; RECONSTRUCTION;

ARMENIA; HOVK 1 CAVE;

CAPRA HIRCUS; MAMMALIA; URSUS SPELAEUS;

EID: 82355180996     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.09.020     Document Type: Article

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