Late occupation of the high-elevation Northern Tibetan Plateau based on cosmogenic, luminescence, and radiocarbon ages

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 413-431

  Brantingham, P Jeffrey ^a   Xing, Gao ^b   Madsen, David B ^c   Rhode, David ^d   Perreault, Charles ^e   van der Woerd, Jerome ^f   Olsen, John W ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; COLONIZATION; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; ELEVATION; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LUMINESCENCE DATING; OBSIDIAN; OCCUPATION; PALEOLITHIC; RADIOCARBON DATING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84881550766     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21448     Document Type: Article

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