Pleistocene environments and human presence in the middle Atbara valley (Khashm El Girba, Eastern Sudan)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 292, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 12-34

  Abbate, Ernesto ^a   Albianelli, Andrea ^a   Awad, Amel ^b   Billi, Paolo ^c   Bruni, Piero ^a   Delfino, Massimo ^a   Ferretti, Marco P ^a   Filippi, Omar ^a   Gallai, Gianni ^a   Ghinassi, Massimiliano ^d   Lauritzen, Stein Erik ^e   Lo Vetro, Domenico ^a   Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido ^f   Martini, Fabio ^a   Napoleone, Giovanni ^a   Bedri, Omar ^g   Papini, Mauro ^a   Rook, Lorenzo ^a   Sagri, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b French Section of the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums   (Sudan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Acheulean artefacts; Eastern Sudan; Hominin dispersal; Pleistocene fluvial system; Pleistocene mammals; U Th datings

Indexed keywords

ACHEULEAN; BOUNDARY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATING METHOD; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FOSSIL RECORD; GRASSLAND; HOMINID; MAGNITUDE; MOLLUSC; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RAINFALL; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION;

GEORGIA; SAVANNAH; SUDAN; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA; MOLLUSCA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78449313443     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.022     Document Type: Article

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