Author: L. R. SerebryannyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
The Chronological Subdivision of the Late Pleistocene of the Russian Plain
Author: L. R. SerebryannyThe Upper Paleolithic of the Central Russian Plain
Author: Olga SofferPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483289184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Upper Paleolithic of the Central Russian Plain examines the hunter-gatherer adaptations on the Upper Paleolithic central Russian Plain. The book offers both a culture history for the area and an explanation for the changes in human adaptation. It presents what has been found at 29 major Upper Paleolithic sites occupied over a period of some 14,000 years. The book presents details of the archaeological inventories and assemblages found at the 29 sites, together with the geography and geology of the study area. It then uses environmental data to model environmental conditions and resource distribution during the various periods of human occupation, as well as to predict optimal strategies for exploiting available resources. Subsequent chapters present the relative and chronometric dating schemes. The book also elucidates the man-land relationships, ensuing subsistence strategies, settlement types present in the archaeological record, settlement systems, and sociopolitical behavior. The text will be significant to archaeologists, paleoecologists, and anthropologists interested in hunter-gatherers and late Pleistocene adaptations.
Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology
Author: J. EhlersPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0444535373
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1127
Book Description
The book presents an up-to-date, detailed overview of the Quaternary glaciations all over the world, not only with regard to stratigraphy but also with regard to major glacial landforms and the extent of the respective ice sheets. The locations of key sites are included. The information is presented in digital, uniformly prepared maps which can be used in a Geographical Information System (GIS) such as ArcView or ArcGIS. The accompanying text supplies the information on how the data were obtained (geomorphology, geological mapping, air photograph evaluation, satellite imagery), how the features were dated (14C, TL, relative stratigraphy) and how reliable they are supposed to be. All references to the underlying basic publications are included. Where controversial interpretations are possible e.g. in Siberia or Tibet, this is pointed out. As a result, the information on Quaternary glaciations worldwide will be much improved and supplied in a uniform digital format. The information on the glacial limits is compiled in digital form by the coordinators of the project, and is available for download at: http://booksite.elsevier.com/9780444534477/ - Completely updated detailed coverage of worldwide Quaternary glaciations - Information in digital, uniformly prepared maps which can be used in a GIS such as ArcView or ArcGis - Step-by-step guideline how to open and use ArcGis files - Possibility to convert the shapefiles into GoogleEarth kmz-files - Availability of chronological controls
The Pleistocene Boundary and the Beginning of the Quaternary
Author: John A. Van CouveringPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521617022
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book documents the agreed geological reference point for the Pleistocene boundary, and its worldwide correlation.
Acta Geologica
Author: Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae
Author: Suomalainen TiedeakatemiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Cenozoic Climatic and Environmental Changes in Russia
Author: A. A. VelichkoPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813723825
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Wisconsinan Stage
Author: Robert Foster BlackPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813711363
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Last Great Ice Sheets
Author: George H. DentonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
New York : Wiley, c1981.
The Northern Pleistocene of Russia
Author: Valery I. AstakhovPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527553515
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
This collection of papers devoted to the Ice Age of northern Russia provides illustrated descriptions of landforms and sediments revealing former ice sheets of the arctic shelf that inundated northern Russia. It shows that a peculiar Siberian type of inland glaciation is inferred from preserved Ice Age features. This type of glacial environment implies arrested landscape evolution in continental climates with fossil glacial ice surviving within the conservative permafrost. The contributions here delve into the problem of the size and age of the last glaciation intensely discussed in the international literature. This is of broad interest because its solution is paramount for global climatic models and the reconstruction of Circum-Arctic paleoenvironments. It is also essential for understanding natural conditions of early human migration into the Arctic. Another point of interest is the book’s discussion of the profound impact of reconstructed glaciers on the tectonic structure and distribution of petroleum reserves.