Huanglong Cave: A Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei Province, China

Quaternary International

Volumn 211, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 29-41

  Liu, Wu ^a   Wu, Xianzhu ^b,c   Pei, Shuwen ^a   Wu, Xiujie ^a   Norton, Christopher J ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

^c CHONGQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; FOSSIL RECORD; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RESEARCH WORK; SPELEOTHEM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOOL USE; TOOTH; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI; YUNXIAN;

AILUROPODA; MAMMALIA; STEGODON;

EID: 71549131287     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.06.017     Document Type: Article

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