Early human occupation of the Red Sea coast of Eritrea during the last interglacial

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6782, 2000, Pages 65-69

  Walter, Robert C ^a   Buffler, Richard T ^b   Bruggemann, J Henrich ^c,d,e   Guillaume, Mireille M M ^f   Berhe, Seife M ^g   Negassi, Berhane ^b,h   Libsekal, Yoseph ^d,i   Cheng, Hal ^j   Edwards, R Lawrence ^j   Von Cosel, Rudo ^e   Néraudeau, Didler ^k   Gagnon, Mario ^l  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ASMARA   (Eritrea)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g African Minerals Inc   (Eritrea)

^h Ministry of Energy and Mines   (Eritrea)

ⁱ National Museum of Eritrea   (Eritrea)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^k Laboratoire de Paléontologie   (France)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LITHIC FRAGMENT; STONE AGE;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MIGRATION; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; CNIDARIA; ERITREA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; INDIAN OCEAN;

ERITREA;

EID: 0034604084     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35011048     Document Type: Article

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