Tracking possible decline of woolly mammoth during the Gravettian in Dordogne (France) and the Ach Valley (Germany) using multi-isotope tracking (13C, 14C, 15N, 34S, 18O)

Quaternary International

Volumn 359, Issue , 2015, Pages 304-317

  Drucker, Dorothée G ^a   Vercoutère, Carole ^b   Chiotti, Laurent ^b,c   Nespoulet, Roland ^b   Crépin, Laurent ^b   Conard, Nicholas J ^a,d   Münzel, Susanne C ^a   Higham, Thomas ^e   van der Plicht, Johannes ^f,g   Lázničková Galetová, Martina ^b,h   Bocherens, Hervé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c Ctr de Recherches de l'Abri Pataud   (France)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ach valley; Aurignacian; Dordogne; Gravettian; Mammoth; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAMMOTH; NICHE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUBSISTENCE; TRACKING; GENETICS; IVORY; PALEONTOLOGY;

AQUITAINE; DORDOGNE; FRANCE; GERMANY;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS SP.; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 84923364793     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.11.028     Document Type: Article

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