Toward developing a basin model for Paleolithic settlement of the Indian subcontinent: Geodynamics, monsoon dynamics, habitat diversity and dispersal routes

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402055614, 2007, Pages 69-96

  Korisettar, Ravi ^a  

^a KARNATAK UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Basin model; Dispersal route; Foreland basin; Ganga plain; Paleolithic site

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049108896     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5562-5_4     Document Type: Chapter

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