New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6925, 2003, Pages 837-840

  Bowler, James M ^a   Johnston, Harvey ^b   Olley, Jon M ^c   Prescott, John R ^d   Roberts, Richard G ^e   Shawcross, Wilfred ^f   Spooner, Nigel A ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^f Australian National University ^*  (Australia)

^g AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ECOLOGY; RADIOISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHY;

PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE; DUST; FAUNA; HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATIGRAPHY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BURIAL; CLIMATE; CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION; FRESH WATER; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; NATURAL DISASTERS; NEW SOUTH WALES; TIME FACTORS;

AUSTRALIA;

HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 0037456388     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01383     Document Type: Article

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