The challenge of direct dating old human fossils

Quaternary International

Volumn 223-224, Issue , 2010, Pages 87-93

  Grün, Rainer ^a   Aubert, Maxime ^a   Hellstrom, John ^b   Duval, Mathieu ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BONE; FOSSIL; HORSE; TOOTH; URANIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ANDALUCIA; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; ORCE; SPAIN;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 77954213641     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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