Additional AMS radiocarbon dates for Wet Cave and the timing of megafaunal extinctions in the Naracoorte region of South Australia

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Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 277-279

  Pate, F Donald ^a   McDowell, Matthew C ^a   Wells, Rod T ^a   Smith, Andrew M ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

AMS radiocarbon dating; Australia; Charcoal; Extinction; Late pleistocene; Megafauna; Naracoorte

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863116210     PISSN: 03115518     EISSN: 17520754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03115510609506866     Document Type: Article

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