Preliminary study on the living environment of hominids at the Donggutuo site, Nihewan Basin

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3896-3904

  Pei, ShuWen ^a,b   Li, XiaoLi ^c   Liu, DeCheng ^a,b   Ma, Ning ^a,b   Peng, Fei ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c BEIJING MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Donggutuo site; Early pleistocene; Human activities; Living environment; Nihewan Basin

Indexed keywords

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 71049159999     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0646-9     Document Type: Article

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