Environmental, depositional and cultural changes in the Upper Pleistocene and Early holocene: The Cinglera del Capellô sequence (Capellades, Spain)

Quaternaire

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-64

  Vaquero, Manuel ^a,b   Allué, Ethel ^a,b   Bischoff, James L ^c   Burjachs, Francesc ^b,d   Vallverdû, Josep ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cave sediments; Cinglera del capell ; Cultural change; Early Holocene; Last glacial; Paleoenvironment; Pollen analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CAVE DEPOSIT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CULTURAL CHANGE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; SPAIN;

EID: 84875966129     PISSN: 11422904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4000/quaternaire.6481     Document Type: Article

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