Way out of Africa: Early Pleistocene paleoenvironments inhabited by Homo erectus in Sangiran, Java

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-24

  Bettis III, E Arthur ^a   Milius, Adrianne K ^a   Carpenter, Scott J ^a   Larick, Roy ^b   Zaim, Yahdi ^c   Rizal, Yan ^c   Ciochon, Russell L ^b   Tassier Surine, Stephanie A ^a   Murray, Daniel ^a   Suminto, ^d   Bronto, Sutinko ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

^c BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Indonesia)

^d Geological Research and Development Centre Bandung   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Hominin evolution; Indonesia; Paleoecology; Paleosols; Sunda

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE;

AFRICA; ASIA; EAST JAVA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SANGIRAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNDA ISLES;

HOMO ERECTUS;

EID: 56349106939     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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