The Berelekh Mammoth "Graveyard": New Chronological and Stratigraphical Data from the 2009 Field Season

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 277-299

  Pitulko, Vladimir V ^a   Basilyan, Aleksandr E ^b   Pavlova, Elena Y ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOCHRONOLOGY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BONE; FOSSIL RECORD; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MAMMOTH; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SITE INVESTIGATION;

ALASKA; KAMCHATKA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902553492     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21483     Document Type: Article

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