The Middle Pleistocene tunnel valley at Schöningen as a Paleolithic archive

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 89, Issue , 2013, Pages 18-26

  Lang, Jörg ^a   Böhner, Utz ^b   Polom, Ulrich ^c   Serangeli, Jordi ^d   Winsemann, Jutta ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege ^*  (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaeological horizons; Geoarchaeology; Landscape evolution

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; TUNNEL;

GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY; SCHONINGEN;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HUMAN; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GERMANY; HUMANS;

EID: 84971554666     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.02.004     Document Type: Article

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