A new model for coastal resource productivity and sea-level change: The role of physical sedimentary processes in assessing the archaeological potential of submerged landscapes from the Northwest Australian continental shelf

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 19-31

  Ward, Ingrid ^a   Larcombe, Piers ^a,b   Veth, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b RPS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; OCCUPATION; PRESERVATION; RESOURCE USE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SUBMERGENCE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84923248330     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21498     Document Type: Article

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