The Alluvial Geoarchaeology of the Sanyangzhuang Site on the Yellow River Floodplain, Henan Province, China

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 324-343

  Kidder, Tristram ^a   Liu, Haiwang ^b   Xu, Qinghai ^c   Li, Minglin ^d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Henan Provincial Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics   (China)

^c HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ARCHAEOLOGY; BRONZE AGE; CIVILIZATION; FLOODPLAIN; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; NEOLITHIC;

BOHAI BAY; CHINA; HENAN; YELLOW RIVER VALLEY;

EID: 84862260372     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21411     Document Type: Article

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