Cioclovina (Romania): affinities of an early modern European

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 732-746

  Harvati, Katerina ^a   Gunz, Philipp ^a   Grigorescu, Dan ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Admixture; Early modern humans; Geometric morphometrics; Hybrids; Modern human origins; Neanderthals; Upper Paleolithic

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN EVOLUTION; HYBRID; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOLITHIC;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 36549048374     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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