Late Acheulean hominins at the Marine Isotope Stage 6/5e transition in north-central India

Quaternary Research

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 670-682

  Haslam, Michael ^a   Roberts, Richard G ^b   Shipton, Ceri ^c   Pal, J N ^d   Fenwick, Jacqueline L ^b   Ditchfield, Peter ^a   Boivin, Nicole ^a   Dubey, A K ^e   Gupta, M C ^d   Petraglia, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^e BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Hominin replacement; Late Acheulean; Late Pleistocene; Lithic technology; Middle Palaeolithic; Middle Son Valley; Optically stimulated luminescence; South Asia

Indexed keywords

HOMININ REPLACEMENT; LATE ACHEULEAN; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LITHIC TECHNOLOGY; MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC; MIDDLE SON VALLEY; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; SOUTH ASIA;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; OXYGEN;

LUMINESCENCE;

ACHEULEAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOMINID; LUMINESCENCE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

INDIA; MADHYA PRADESH;

EID: 79955464519     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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