Transitions or turnovers? Climatically-forced extinctions of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in the east Mediterranean Levant

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 23-24, 2008, Pages 2253-2270

  Shea, John J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL DETERIORATIONS; EVOLVED STRATEGIES; FOCAL POINTS; HOMO SAPIENS; INFLECTION POINTS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; RAPID CLIMATE CHANGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CLIMATE FORCING; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE;

LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 55949128580     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.08.015     Document Type: Article

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