Small mid-pleistocene hominin associated with east African acheulean technology

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5680, 2004, Pages 75-78

  Potts, Richard ^a,b   Behrensmeyer, Anna K ^a   Deino, Alan ^c   Ditchfield, Peter ^d   Clark, Jennifer ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

FOSSILS; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY;

BIOLOGY;

ARGON;

ACHEULEAN; CRANIUM; FOSSIL; PLEISTOCENE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION; SKULL; STRATIGRAPHY; TECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; CRANIAL SUTURES; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; KENYA; SKULL; TEMPORAL BONE;

AFRICA;

HOMINIDAE; HOMO; HOMO ERECTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3042836178     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1097661     Document Type: Article

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