Assessing earliest human settlement of Eurasia: Late Pliocene dispersions from Africa

Antiquity

Volumn 73, Issue 281, 1999, Pages 563-570

  Turner, Alan ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early human dispersion; Late Pliocene; Levantine corridor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000179696     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X0006511X     Document Type: Article

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