Speculation on the timing and nature of Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer colonization of the Tibetan Plateau

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1510-1516

  Brantingham, P Jeffrey ^a   Ma, Haizhou ^b   Olsen, J W ^c   Gao, Xing ^d   Madsen, D B ^e   Rhode, D E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^e DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Climate change; Late Pleistocene; Upper Paleolithic

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342417512     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/02wd0276     Document Type: Article

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