Tephrostratigraphy and the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 211-235

  Tryon, Christian A ^a   McBrearty, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Acheulian; Middle Pleistocene; Middle Stone Age; Tephrostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; KENYA; SEDIMENT; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ARCHAEOLOGY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; KENYA; TIME FACTORS;

ACHEULEAN; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; PLEISTOCENE; STONE AGE; STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TUFF;

KENYA; KENYA RIFT VALLEY; TUGEN HILLS;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 0036008040     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.2001.0513     Document Type: Article

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