First record of hominid teeth from the Plio-Pleistocene site of Gondolin, South Africa

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 299-307

  Menter, C G ^a   Kuykendall, K L ^a   Keyser, A W ^a   Conroy, G C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTITION; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; DENTITION; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGY; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PALEODONTOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; TOOTH;

EID: 0033173395     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1999.0329     Document Type: Article

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