Has Australia backdated the human revolution?

Antiquity

Volumn 73, Issue 282, 1999, Pages 876-879

  Stringer, Chris ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Australia; Dating; Fossil, colonization; Human origins; Mungo

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000703446     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00065613     Document Type: Article

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