Hominins on Flores, Indonesia, by one million years ago

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7289, 2010, Pages 748-752

  Brumm, Adam ^a   Jensen, Gitte M ^b   Van Den Bergh, Gert D ^a,c   Morwood, Michael J ^a   Kurniawan, Iwan ^d   Aziz, Fachroel ^d   Storey, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Geological Survey Institute   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON;

ARTIFACT; ELEPHANT; EXTINCTION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; IGNIMBRITE; NATURAL HAZARD; TURTLE;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; FAUNA; FOSSIL; HOMINID; INDONESIA; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STONE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; INDONESIA; PALEONTOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EAST NUSA TENGGARA; FLORES [LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS]; INDONESIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUNDA ISLES;

GEOCHELONE; STEGODON;

EID: 77950439473     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08844     Document Type: Article

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