Central-East China – A Plio-Pleistocene Dispersal Corridor: The Current State of Evidence for Hominin Occupations

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048190935, 2011, Pages 159-168

  Norton, Christopher J ^a   Gao, Xing ^b   Liu, Wu ^b   Braun, David R ^b   Wu, Xiujie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Archaic Homo sapiens; China; Dispersal corridor; Homo erectus; Paleoanthropology; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649655688     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9094-2_12     Document Type: Chapter

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