Palaeoenvironments during the period of the Neanderthals settlement in Chagyrskaya cave (Altai Mountains, Russia)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 467, Issue , 2017, Pages 265-276

  Rudaya, Natalia ^a,b,c,d   Vasiliev, Sergei ^a,b   Viola, Bence ^a,e,f   Talamo, Sahra ^f   Markin, Sergei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c ALTAI STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Altai Mountains; Mammals; Neanderthals; Palaeoenvironments; Pollen

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANTHROPOLOGY; CAVE; FACIES; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HUNTING; MATERIAL CULTURE; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; POLLEN; RECONSTRUCTION;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84951032039     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.12.007     Document Type: Article

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