Late Pleistocene adult mortality patterns and modern human establishment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1267-1271

  Trinkaus, Erik ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age at death; Mandible; Paleodemography; Postcrania; Teeth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; GROUPS BY AGE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; PALEOLITHIC; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AFRICA; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; ASIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952166229     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018700108     Document Type: Article

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