Palaeoenvironmental dynamics and Palaeolithic occupation at Katoati, Thar Desert, India

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 298-313

  Blinkhorn, James ^a,b   Achyuthan, Hema ^c   Ditchfield, Peter ^d   Petraglia, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History ^*  (Germany)

^c ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

late Pleistocene; Middle Palaeolithic; Modern human dispersal; Monsoon; South Asia; Thar Desert

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY;

LATE PLEISTOCENE; MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC; MODERN HUMAN DISPERSAL; MONSOON; SOUTH ASIA; THAR DESERT;

LANDFORMS;

ARIDITY; HOMINID; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HUMIDITY; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

THAR DESERT;

EID: 85019497597     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/qua.2017.7     Document Type: Article

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