Environment and behavior of 2.5-million-year-old Bouri hominids

Science

Volumn 284, Issue 5414, 1999, Pages 625-629

  De Heinzelin, Jean ^a   Clark, J Desmond ^b   White, Tim ^b   Hart, William ^c   Renne, Paul ^b,d   WoldeGabriel, Giday ^e   Beyene, Yonas ^f   Vrba, Elisabeth ^g  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture   (Ethiopia)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; LITHIC FRAGMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; ETHIOPIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; HOMINID; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DIET; ETHIOPIA; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS;

ETHIOPIA;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS; HOMINIDAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 0033597434     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5414.625     Document Type: Article

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