Human responses to climate change on obsidian source exploitation during the Upper Paleolithic in the Central Highlands, central Japan

Quaternary International

Volumn 442, Issue , 2017, Pages 12-22

  Shimada, Kazutaka ^a   Yoshida, Akihiro ^b   Hashizume, Jun ^a   Ono, Akira ^a  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Landscape change; Obsidian exploitation; Obsidian provenance analysis; The last glacial maximum; Upper Paleolithic

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; EXPLOITATION; HUNTER-GATHERER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; OBSIDIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLITHIC;

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS [JAPAN]; JAPAN;

EID: 84995593500     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.07.047     Document Type: Article

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