Early Acheulean technology in the Rietputs Formation, South Africa, dated with cosmogenic nuclides

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 152-160

  Gibbon, Ryan J ^a   Granger, Darryl E ^b   Kuman, Kathleen ^a   Partridge, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic burial dating; Early Acheulean; Homo ergaster; South Africa; Vaal River

Indexed keywords

ACHEULEAN; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOMINID; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

AFRICA; GAUTENG; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; VAAL RIVER;

HOMINIDAE; HOMO ERGASTER;

EID: 58549109404     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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