Late Pleistocene dispersal corridors across the Iranian Plateau: A case study from Mirak, a Middle Paleolithic site on the northern edge of the Iranian Central desert (Dasht-e Kavir)

Quaternary International

Volumn 300, Issue , 2013, Pages 267-281

  Nasab, Hamed Vahdati ^a   Clark, Geoffrey A ^b   Torkamandi, Shirin ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; MOUSTERIAN; PALEOLITHIC; PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY;

ARABIAN SEA; CASPIAN SEA; ELBURZ; INDIAN OCEAN; IRAN; IRANIAN PLATEAU; PERSIAN GULF;

EID: 84878980296     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.11.028     Document Type: Article

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