Dispersal and colonisation, long and short chronologies: How continuous is the Early Pleistocene record for hominids outside East Africa?

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 421-440

  Dennell, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asia; Colonisation; Eurasia; Europe; Hominid dispersalS; Lower Pleistocene; North Africa

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; PLEISTOCENE;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE;

HOMINIDAE; HOMO; HOMO ERECTUS;

EID: 0347024451     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2003.09.006     Document Type: Article

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