Earliest modern humans in southern Africa dated by isoleucine epimerization in ostrich eggshell

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1537-1548

  Miller, G H ^a   Beaumont, P B ^b   Deacon, H J ^c   Brooks, A S ^d   Hare, P E ^e   Jull, A J T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b McGregor Museum   (South Africa)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEONTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

(SOUTHERN); AFRICA;

HOMINIDAE; HOMO SAPIENS; PARNASSIUS APOLLO; PRIMATES; STRUTHIO CAMELUS;

EID: 0033231611     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(99)00044-X     Document Type: Article

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