Ages for the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa: Implications for human behavior and dispersal

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5902, 2008, Pages 733-735

  Jacobs, Zenobia ^a   Roberts, Richard G ^a   Galbraith, Rex F ^b   Deacon, Hilary J ^c   Grün, Rainer ^d   Mackay, Alex ^d   Mitchell, Peter ^e   Vogelsang, Ralf ^f   Wadley, Lyn ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM   (South Africa)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HOMINID; MESOLITHIC; POPULATION GROWTH;

AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; MESOLITHIC; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; ARCHAEOLOGY; BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE; CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA;

EID: 55349145250     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1162219     Document Type: Article

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