Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 6996, 2004, Pages 198-201

  Conard, Nicholas J ^a   Grootes, Pieter M ^b   Smith, Freed H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

FOSSILS; RADIOCARBON MEASUREMENTS;

MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

CARBON 14;

CULTURAL TRADITION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MIGRATION; NEANDERTHAL; NEOLITHIC; SKELETAL REMAINS;

ARTICLE; BONE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EUROPE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; HUMERUS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MANDIBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; SKULL; STRATIGRAPHY; VERTEBRA;

ANIMALS; CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FOSSILS; GERMANY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SKELETON; TIME FACTORS;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; VOGELHERD CAVES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3142653143     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02690     Document Type: Article

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