The palaeoenvironmental δ13C record in European woolly mammoth tooth enamel

Quaternary International

Volumn 245, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 285-290

  Arppe, L ^a   Aaris Sorensen K ^b   Daugnora, L ^c   Lougas L ^d   Wojtal, P ^e   Zupins I ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Institute of Baltic Sea Region History and Archaeology   (Lithuania)

^d TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^e INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS   (Poland)

^f Natural History Museum of Latvia   (Latvia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; DIET; ENAMEL; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAMMOTH; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

DENMARK; ESTONIA; FINLAND; LATVIA; LITHUANIA; POLAND; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 82755161969     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.10.018     Document Type: Article

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