Palaeoclimatic information from isotopic signatures of Late Pleistocene Ursus ingressus bone and teeth apatite (Loutra Arideas Cave, Macedonia, Greece)

Quaternary International

Volumn 245, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 291-301

  Dotsika, E ^a   Zisi, N ^a,b   Tsoukala, E ^b   Poutoukis, D ^c   Lykoudis, S ^d   Giannakopoulos, A ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c Ministry of Development   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; BEAR; BONE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DIET; EXTINCTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METABOLISM; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; TOOTH;

GREECE; MACEDONIA [GREECE]; PINDUS MOUNTAINS;

ANIMALIA; URSIDAE; URSUS; URSUS ARCTOS; URSUS SPELAEUS;

EID: 82755187394     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.01.027     Document Type: Article

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