U-Th ages constraining the Neanderthal footprint at Vârtop Cave, Romania

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 10-11, 2005, Pages 1151-1157

  Onac, Bogdan P ^a   Viehmann, Iosif ^a   Lundberg, Joyce ^b   Lauritzen, Stein Erik ^c   Stringer, Chris ^d   Popiţǎ, Vasile ^e  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e THE ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE PROF DR ION CHIRICUTA   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; THORIUM; URANIUM;

BASAL LAYER; CALC-TUFA LAYER; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN FOOTPRINTS;

BIODIVERSITY;

FOOTPRINT; FOSSIL RECORD; NEANDERTHAL; PLEISTOCENE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

HOMO SAPIENS; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS;

EID: 14944383726     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.12.001     Document Type: Article

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