Middle Stone Age (MSA) site distributions in eastern Africa and their relationship to Quaternary environmental change, refugia and the evolution of Homo sapiens

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 27-28, 2008, Pages 2484-2498

  Basell, Laura S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CYCLES; EASTERN AFRICA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES; HOMO SAPIENS; LITHICS; MACRO SCALES; PALAEOVEGETATION; PUSH AND PULLS; SITE DISTRIBUTIONS; STONE AGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CLIMATE CYCLE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; QUATERNARY; REFUGIUM; STONE AGE; VEGETATION MAPPING; VOLCANISM;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 56949101124     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.09.010     Document Type: Article

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