Magnetostratigraphic age of the Xiantai Paleolithic site in the Nihewan Basin and implications for early human colonization of Northeast Asia

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 244, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 336-348

  Deng, Chenglong ^a   Wei, Qi ^b   Zhu, Rixiang ^a   Wang, Hongqiang ^a   Zhang, Rui ^a   Ao, Hong ^a   Chang, Liao ^c   Pan, Yongxin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early Pleistocene; Human evolution; Magnetostratigraphy; Nihewan Basin; Xiantai Paleolithic site

Indexed keywords

EARLY PLEISTOCENE; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NIHEWAN BASIN; XIANTAI PALEOLITHIC SITE;

CATCHMENTS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETITE; MAGNETIZATION;

STRATIGRAPHY;

HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOLITHIC;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HEBEI; NIHEWAN BASIN;

EID: 33645507073     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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