New evidence for human occupation of the northern Tibetan Plateau, China during the Late Pleistocene

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 52, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 2675-2679

  Yuan, Baoyin ^a   Huang, Weiwen ^b   Zhang, David ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Interstadial before the LGM; Migratory waves of early human; Northern Tibetan Plateau; Siling Co's Paleoliths

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948901311     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-007-0357-z     Document Type: Article

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