Sites on the landscape: Paleoenvironmental context of late Pleistocene archaeological sites from the Lake Victoria basin, equatorial East Africa

Quaternary International

Volumn 331, Issue , 2014, Pages 20-30

  Tryon, C A ^a   Faith, J T ^b   Peppe, D J ^c   Keegan, W F ^d   Keegan, K N ^e   Jenkins, K H ^f   Nightingale, S ^g   Patterson, D ^h   Van Plantinga, A ⁱ   Driese, S ^c   Johnson, C R ^j   Beverly, E J ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Heritage Consultants LLC   (United States)

^e FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^g CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^h THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FAUNA; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; MESOLITHIC; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA;

BOVIDAE;

EID: 84899973748     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.038     Document Type: Article

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