The Watinglo mandible: A second terminal Pleistocene Homo sapiens fossil from tropical Sahul with a test on existing models for the human settlement of the region

HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-29

  Bulbeck, D ^a   O'Connor, S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HEALTH; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; MANDIBLE; MELANESIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOOTH; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AUSTRALIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MELANESIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ORAL HEALTH; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TOOTH; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 79551599349     PISSN: 0018442X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchb.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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