Stratigraphical and palaeontological data from the Early Pleistocene Pirro 10 site of Pirro Nord (Puglia, south eastern Italy)

Quaternary International

Volumn 267, Issue , 2012, Pages 40-55

  Pavia, Marco ^a   Zunino, Marta ^a   Coltorti, Mauro ^b   Angelone, Chiara ^a   Arzarello, Marta ^c   Bagnus, Cristina ^a   Bellucci, Luca ^d   Colombero, Simone ^a   Marcolini, Federica ^e   Peretto, Carlo ^c   Petronio, Carmelo ^d   Petrucci, Mauro ^d   Pieruccini, Pierluigi ^b   Sardella, Raffaele ^d   Tema, Evdokia ^a   Villier, Boris ^a   Pavia, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOCHRONOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISSOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; KARSTIFICATION; LITHOLOGY; MAMMAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEONTOLOGY; PHREATIC ZONE; PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY; VADOSE ZONE; VERTEBRATE; VILLAFRANCHIAN;

ITALY; PUGLIA;

ARVICOLINAE; BISON; CANIS; CHIROPTERA; EQUUS ALTIDENS; HYSTRIX (MAMMAL); MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; URSUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84862839289     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.12.019     Document Type: Article

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