Holocene hyrax dung deposits in the afroalpine belt of the Bale Mountains (Ethiopia) and their palaeoclimatic implication

Environmental Archaeology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 72-81

  Kuzmicheva, E A ^a   Debella, H ^b   Khasanov, B ^a   Krylovich, O ^a   Babenko, A ^a   Savinetsky, A ^a   Severova, E ^c   Yirga, S ^b  

^a SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Climate; Dung deposit; Ethiopia; Holocene; Hyrax; Pollen; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877117868     PISSN: 14614103     EISSN: 17496314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1461410313Z.00000000018     Document Type: Article

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