Ages of Liangshan Paleolithic sites in Hanzhong Basin, central China

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages 380-386

  Sun, Xuefeng ^a   Lu, Huayu ^a   Wang, Shejiang ^b   Yi, Shuangwen ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental change; Hanzhong Basin; Loess; Paleolithic site; TT OSL dating

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOLITHIC; PALEOSOL;

CHINA; HANZHONG; LIANGSHAN; LOESS PLATEAU; SHAANXI; SICHUAN;

EID: 84863774757     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.04.014     Document Type: Article

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