Multiproxy Analyses of Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironment of the Late Palaeolithic Grabow Floodplain Site, Northern Germany

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 50-65

  Tolksdorf, Johann Friedrich ^a   Turner, Falko ^b   Kaiser, Knut ^c   Eckmeier, Eileen ^d   Stahlschmidt, Mareike ^e   Housley, Rupert A ^f   Breest, Klaus ^g   Veil, Stephan ^g  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g Lower Saxony State Museum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVISOL; OCCUPATION; OLDER DRYAS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; SEDIMENTATION; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; STRATIGRAPHY; VEGETATION HISTORY; WATER LEVEL; WATER TABLE;

ELBE RIVER;

EID: 84870865503     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21429     Document Type: Article

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