New paleomagnetic data from the hominin bearing Dmanisi paleo-anthropologic site (southern Georgia, Caucasus)

Quaternary Research

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 91-96

  Calvo Rathert, M ^a   Goguitchaichvili, A ^b   Sologashvili, D ^c   Villalain J J ^a   Bogalo M F ^a   Carrancho, A ^a   Maissuradze, G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^b Laboratorio Interinstitucional de Magnetismo Natural   (Mexico)

^c Department of Geophysics   (Georgia)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Georgia)

Author keywords

Caucasus; Dmanisi; Human evolution; Paleomagnetism; Pleistocene; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LAVA FLOW; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CAUCASUS; EURASIA;

EID: 38349162818     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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