Late Neandertals in Southeastern Iberia: Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, Murcia, Spain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 52, 2008, Pages 20631-20636

  Walker, Michael J ^a   Gibert, Josep ^b   López, Mariano V ^a   Lombardi, A Vincent ^c   Pérez Pérez, Alejandro ^d   Zapata, Josefina ^a   Ortega, Jon ^a   Higham, Thomas ^e   Pike, Alistair ^f   Schwenninger, Jean Luc ^e   Zilhão, João ^f   Trinkaus, Erik ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

^c Universitat de Barcelona ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^g WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentition; Mandible; Middle paleolithic; Postcrania

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ARTICLE; DENTITION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOSSIL; HUMAN; MANDIBLE; MANDIBULAR NERVE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; SPAIN;

EID: 58549108773     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811213106     Document Type: Article

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