Climate, African and Beringian subaerial continental shelves, and migration of early peoples

Quaternary International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-101

  Hetherington, Renée ^a   Wiebe, Edward ^a   Weaver, Andrew J ^a   Carto, Shannon L ^b   Eby, Michael ^a   MacLeod, Roger ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MIGRATION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PALEOCLIMATE; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 44049092514     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.06.033     Document Type: Article

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