A new palaeoenvironmental model for the evolution of the byzovaya palaeolithic site, northern russia

Boreas

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 527-545

  Heggen, Herbjørn Presthus ^a   Svendsen, John Inge ^a   Mangerud, Jan ^a   Lohne, Øystein S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; BONE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FAUNA; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MODELING; MOUSTERIAN; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SKELETAL REMAINS; STRATIGRAPHY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BOREAS; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS;

EID: 84866770997     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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