Mass accumulations of mammoth (mammoth 'graveyards') with indications of past human activity in the northern Yana-Indighirka lowland, Arctic Siberia

Quaternary International

Volumn 406, Issue , 2016, Pages 202-217

  Pitulko, V V ^a   Pavlova, E Y ^b   Basilyan, A E ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

^b ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Accumulations of mammoth; Arctic Siberia; Late Pleistocene; Mammoth exploitation; Upper Palaeolithic; Western Beringia

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOINDICATOR; CHRONOLOGY; GEOACCUMULATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MAMMOTH; MATERIAL CULTURE; PALEOLITHIC;

ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHEAST ASIA; SERBIA;

EID: 84958225141     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.12.039     Document Type: Article

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