A scenario of human dispersal in the northwestern Mediterranean throughout the Early to Middle Pleistocene

Quaternary International

Volumn 223-224, Issue , 2010, Pages 179-194

  Palombo, Maria Rita ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; MAMMAL; PLEISTOCENE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956063894     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.11.016     Document Type: Article

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