The Dynamics of Small Postglacial Lake Basins and the Nature of Their Archaeological Record: A Case Study of the Middle Palaeolithic Site Neumark-Nord 2, Germany

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 393-413

  Pop, Eduard ^a   Bakels, Corrie ^a   Kuijper, Wim ^a   Mücher, Herman ^b,c   van Dijk, Madeleine ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b University of Amsterdam ^*  (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; EEMIAN; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; PALEOLITHIC; POSTGLACIAL;

GERMANY;

EID: 84942098278     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21526     Document Type: Article

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