Direct dating of early upper palaeolithic human remains from Mladeč

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7040, 2005, Pages 332-335

  Wild, Eva M ^a   Teschler Nicola, Maria ^b   Kutschera, Walter ^a   Steier, Peter ^a   Trinkaus, Erik ^c   Wanek, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BONE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RADIOISOTOPES; ROCKS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; FOSSILS; MORPHOLOGICAL VARIABILITY; RADIOCARBON DATING;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CARBON 14;

PALEOLITHIC;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BONE; EUROPE; FOSSIL; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOOTH; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; MALE; MANDIBLE; SKULL; TIME;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MORAVIA; WORLD;

CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; SKULL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 19644374181     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03585     Document Type: Article

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