Mesolithic and Neolithic (dis)continuities in the Danube Gorges: New AMS dates from Padina and Hajdučka Vodenica (Serbia)

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 341-371

  Borić, Dušan ^a   Miracle, Preston ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; DATING METHOD; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRATIGRAPHY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SERBIA; SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 8644241682     PISSN: 02625253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2004.00215.x     Document Type: Article

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