Stone Age settlement and Holocene shore displacement in the Narva-Luga Klint Bay area, eastern Gulf of Finland

Boreas

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 912-931

  Rosentau, Alar ^a   Muru, Merle ^a   Kriiska, Aivar ^a   Subetto, Dmitry A ^b   Vassiljev, Jüri ^c   Hang, Tiit ^a   Gerasimov, Dmitry ^d   Nordqvist, Kerkko ^e   Ludikova, Anna ^f   Lõugas, Lembi ^g   Raig, Hanna ^a   Kihno, Kersti ^a   Aunap, Raivo ^a   Letyka, Nikolay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b HERZEN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA   (Russian Federation)

^c TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^d RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f ST PETERSBURG INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS AND AUTOMATION   (Russian Federation)

^g TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL LAGOON; ECONOMIC HISTORY; GIS; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAKE LEVEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; STONE AGE; TRANSGRESSION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; ESTONIA; GULF OF FINLAND; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84884716141     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bor.12004     Document Type: Article

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