A new radiocarbon revolution and the dispersal of modern humans in Eurasia

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7079, 2006, Pages 931-935

  Mellars, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING;

BIODIVERSITY;

CARBON 14; OXYGEN; THORIUM; URANIUM;

HUMAN EVOLUTION; MIGRATION; RADIOCARBON DATING;

CALIBRATION; COSMIC RADIATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EUROPE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EURASIA;

EID: 33644545086     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04521     Document Type: Review

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