Radiocarbon dating of interdune paleo-wetland deposits to constrain the age of mid-to-late holocene microlithic artifacts from the zhongba site, Southwestern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 33-46

  Hudson, Adam M ^a   Olsen, John W ^b   Quade, Jay ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; CRETACEOUS; DATING METHOD; DUNE FIELD; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HISTORICAL TIME (HUMAN HISTORY); HOLOCENE; MICROSTRUCTURE; OCCUPATION; RADIOCARBON DATING; TYPOLOGY; WETLAND;

CHANG TANG NATURE RESERVE; CHINA; CHONGQING; QINGHAI; QINGHAI LAKE BASIN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG; ZHONGBA;

EID: 84890313844     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21459     Document Type: Article

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