Chronology of the European Russian Gravettian: New radiocarbon dating results and interpretation

Quartar

Volumn 62, Issue , 2015, Pages 121-132

  Reynolds, Natasha ^a   Lisitsyn, Sergey N ^b   Sablin, Mikhail V ^c   Barton, Nick ^a   Hicham, Thomas F G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

^c ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

14C dating; Borshch vo; Kost nki; Mid upper palaeolithic; Palaeoclimates; Russia

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026667858     PISSN: 03757471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.7485/QU62_5     Document Type: Article

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