How cold was it for Neanderthals moving to Central Europe during warm phases of the last glaciation?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 481-487

  Skrzypek, Grzegorz ^a   Winiewski, Andrzej ^b   Grierson, Pauline F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Neanderthals; Oxygen; Phosphate; Pleistocene; Stable isotope; Teeth; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; CENTRAL EUROPE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; HUMAN MIGRATION; ICE CORE; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; NEANDERTHALS; NEW APPROACHES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALAEOTEMPERATURES; PLEISTOCENE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STABLE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; TEETH; WESTERN EUROPE;

ESTIMATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OXYGEN;

ISOTOPES;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTINCTION; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIATION; NEANDERTHAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; PHOSPHATE; PLEISTOCENE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOOTH;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79952042861     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.018     Document Type: Article

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