Chronological studies of Shuidonggou (SDG) Locality 1 and their significance for archaeology

Quaternary International

Volumn 347, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-11

  Nian, Xiaomei ^a   Gao, Xing ^a   Zhou, Liping ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Archaeological site; OSL dating; Paleolithic; Shuidonggou (SDG)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923227321     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.03.050     Document Type: Article

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