Mass spectrometric U-series dating of Laibin hominid site in Guangxi, southern China

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2109-2114

  Shen, Guanjun ^a   Wang, Wei ^b   Cheng, Hai ^c   Edwards, R Lawrence ^c  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Natural History Museum of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Laibin hominid; Late Pleistocene; Morphologically modern humans; Southern China; Speleothem calcite; U series dating

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLEISTOCENE; SPELEOTHEM; STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGXI ZHUANGZU;

HOMINIDAE; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 35449004058     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2007.02.008     Document Type: Article

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