Exploring paleogeographic conditions at two paleolithic sites in Navarino, southwest Greece, dated by optically stimulated luminescence

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 237-258

  Athanassas, Constantin ^a   Bassiakos, Yannis ^a   Wagner, Günther A ^b   Timpson, Michael E ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Resource Systems Group   (United States)

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EID: 84859986403     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21406     Document Type: Article

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