Depositional environments, archeological occurrences and hominids from Members E and F of the Shungura Formation (Omo basin, Ethiopia)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 7-8, 1987, Pages 665-700

  Clark Howell, F ^a   Haesaerts, P ^b   de Heinzelin, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgiique ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

archeology; Australopithecus; Homo; Oldowan; Omo basin; Plio Pleistocene; Shungura Formation; stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000698115     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0047-2484(87)90019-4     Document Type: Article

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