Early pleistocene presence of acheulian hominins in South India

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6024, 2011, Pages 1596-1599

  Pappu, Shanti ^a   Gunnell, Yanni ^b   Akhilesh, Kumar ^a   Braucher, Régis ^c   Taieb, Maurice ^c   Demory, François ^c   Thouveny, Nicolas ^c  

^a Sharma Centre for Heritage Education   (India)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

^c CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOMINID; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; FOSSIL HOMININ; INDIA; MAGNETIC FIELD; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STONE AGE;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; HOMINIDAE; INDIA; TIME; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

INDIA;

GALIUM APARINE;

EID: 79953128404     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1200183     Document Type: Article

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