Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction: Evidence for seasonality at Allia Bay, Kenya, at 3.9 million years

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 199, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 17-30

  Macho, G A ^a   Leakey, M G ^b   Williamson, D K ^a   Jiang, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Allia Bay; Dental development; Palaeoecology; Seasonality; Striae of Retzius

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; NEOGENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRIMATE; SEASONALITY; STRESS; TOOTH;

ALLIA BAY; KENYA;

ALLIA; AUSTRALOPITHECUS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS ANAMENSIS; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0141750483     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00483-8     Document Type: Article

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