A short chronology for the peopling of the Tibetan Plateau

Developments in Quaternary Science

Volumn 9, Issue C, 2007, Pages 129-150

  Jeffrey Brantingham, P ^a   Gao, Xing ^b   Olsen, John W ^c   Ma, Haizhou ^d   Rhode, David ^e   Zhang, Haiying ^f   Madsen, David B ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^e DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 77956745139     PISSN: 15710866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1571-0866(07)09010-0     Document Type: Review

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