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Revisiting the subalpine Mesolithic site Ullafelsen in the Fotsch Valley, Stubai Alps, Austria – new insights into pedogenesis and landscape evolution from leaf-wax-derived n-alkanes, black carbon and radiocarbon dating
Michael Zech
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Heisenberg Chair of Physical Geography with Focus on
Paleoenvironmental Research, Department of Geosciences, Technische
Universität Dresden, Helmholtzstr. 10, 01096 Dresden, Germany
Soil Biogeochemistry Group, Institute of Agronomy and Nutritional
Sciences, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Von-Seckendorff-Platz
3, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
Marcel Lerch
Heisenberg Chair of Physical Geography with Focus on
Paleoenvironmental Research, Department of Geosciences, Technische
Universität Dresden, Helmholtzstr. 10, 01096 Dresden, Germany
Soil Biogeochemistry Group, Institute of Agronomy and Nutritional
Sciences, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Von-Seckendorff-Platz
3, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
Marcel Bliedtner
Chair of Physical Geography, Institute of Geography, Friedrich
Schiller University of Jena, Löbdergraben 32, 07743 Jena, Germany
Tobias Bromm
Soil Biogeochemistry Group, Institute of Agronomy and Nutritional
Sciences, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Von-Seckendorff-Platz
3, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
Fabian Seemann
Heisenberg Chair of Physical Geography with Focus on
Paleoenvironmental Research, Department of Geosciences, Technische
Universität Dresden, Helmholtzstr. 10, 01096 Dresden, Germany
Sönke Szidat
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern,
Freiestrasse 3, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Gary Salazar
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern,
Freiestrasse 3, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Roland Zech
Chair of Physical Geography, Institute of Geography, Friedrich
Schiller University of Jena, Löbdergraben 32, 07743 Jena, Germany
Bruno Glaser
Soil Biogeochemistry Group, Institute of Agronomy and Nutritional
Sciences, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Von-Seckendorff-Platz
3, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
Jean Nicolas Haas
Institute of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestr. 15,
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Dieter Schäfer
Institute of Archaeology, University of Innsbruck, Langer Weg 11/3,
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Clemens Geitner
Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020
Innsbruck, Austria
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