The stratigraphy of the Middle Stone Age sediments at Pinnacle Point Cave 13B (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 234-255

  Marean, Curtis W ^a   Bar Matthews, Miryam ^b   Fisher, Erich ^c   Goldberg, Paul ^d   Herries, Andy ^e   Karkanas, Panagiotis ^f   Nilssen, Peter J ^g   Thompson, Erin ^h  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^d Boston University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology Speleology   (Greece)

^g CHARM   (South Africa)

^h ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Origins of modern humans

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAVE DEPOSIT; HUMAN EVOLUTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MESOLITHIC; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

PINNACLE POINT; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 77957687475     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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