Satsurblia: New insights of human response and survival across the last glacial maximum in the southern caucasus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Pinhasi, Ron ^a   Meshveliani, Tengiz ^b   Matskevich, Zinovi ^c   Bar Oz, Guy ^d   Weissbrod, Lior ^d   Miller, Christopher E ^e   Wilkinson, Keith ^f   Lordkipanidze, David ^b   Jakeli, Nino ^b   Kvavadze, Eliso ^g   Higham, Thomas F G ^h   Belfer Cohen, Anna ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Department of Prehistory   (Georgia)

^c ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^e Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoecology   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^g The National Museum of Georgia   (Georgia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CEREAL; CLIMATE; COMBUSTION; COOKING; FAUNA; FIBER; FOOD INTAKE; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MEAT; NONHUMAN; PALEOLITHIC; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION; WOOD; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL SPORE; BIODIVERSITY; CAVE; FERN; FOSSIL; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; SEDIMENT;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CAVES; FERNS; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HUMANS; POLLEN; SPORES;

EID: 84908565785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111271     Document Type: Article

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