The first hominin of Europe

Nature

Volumn 452, Issue 7186, 2008, Pages 465-469

  Carbonell, Eudald ^a   Bermúdez De Castro, José M ^b   Parés, Josep M ^b,c   Pérez González, Alfredo ^b,d   Cuenca Bescós, Gloria ^e   Ollé, Andreu ^a   Mosquera, Marina ^a   Huguet, Rosa ^a   Van Der Made, Jan ^f   Rosas, Antonio ^f   Sala, Robert ^a   Vallverdú, Josep ^a   García, Nuria ^d,g   Granger, Darryl E ^h   Martinón Torres, María ^b   Rodríguez, Xosé P ^a   Stock, Greg M ^c,i   Vergès, Josep M ^a   Allué, Ethel ^a   Burjachs, Francesc ^a,j   Cáceres, Isabel ^a   Canals, Antoni ^a   Benito, Alfonso ^d   Díez, Carlos ^k   Lozano, Marina ^a   Mateos, Ana ^b   Navazo, Marta ^k   Rodríguez, Jesús ^b   Rosell, Jordi ^a   Arsuaga, Juan L ^d,g   more..

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^f MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^g INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^h PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Yosemite National Park   (United States)

^j INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOMINID; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; OCCUPATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE;

ARTICLE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; HOMINID; HUMAN; LOWER PLEISTOCENE; MAGNETISM; MANDIBLE; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WESTERN EUROPE;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; EURASIA; EUROPE; SIMA DEL ELEFANTE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 41349095733     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06815     Document Type: Article

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