Peopling of the northern Tibetan Plateau

World Archaeology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 387-414

  Brantingham, P Jeffrey ^a   Xing, Gao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Holocene; Late Pleistocene; Neolithic; Palaeoclimate; Palaeolithic; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; COLONIZATION; NEOLITHIC; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLITHIC;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 33747339501     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438240600813301     Document Type: Article

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