Palaeoenvironment and geoconservation of mammoths from the Nosak loess-palaeosol sequence (Drmno, northeastern Serbia): Initial results and perspectives

Quaternary International

Volumn 334-335, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-39

  Markovič, Slobodan B ^a   Korač, Miomir ^b   Mrdič, Nemanja ^b   Buylaert, Jan Pieter ^c,d   Thiel, Christine ^c,d   McLaren, Sue J ^e   Stevens, Thomas ^a,f   Tomič, Nemanja ^a   Petič, Nikola ^a   Jovanović, Mladjen ^a   Vasiljević, Djordjije A ^a   Sümegi, Pál ^g   Gavrilov, Milivoj B ^a   Obreht, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MAMMOTH; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETON;

SERBIA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84902076527     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.047     Document Type: Article

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