Investigating climate at the Upper Palaeolithic site of Kraków Spadzista Street (B), Poland, using oxygen isotopes

Quaternary International

Volumn 294, Issue , 2013, Pages 108-119

  Pryor, Alexander J E ^a   O'Connell, Tamsin C ^a   Wojtal, Piotr ^b   Krzemińska, Alina ^c   Stevens, Rhiannon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS   (Poland)

^c PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; ENAMEL; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MAMMOTH; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC;

CRACOW; MALOPOLSKIE; POLAND;

EID: 84876132766     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.09.027     Document Type: Article

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