Palaeoenvironments of early hominins in temperate and Mediterranean Eurasia: New palaeobotanical data from Palaeolithic key-sites and synchronous natural sequences

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1439-1447

  Messager, Erwan ^a   Lebreton, Vincent ^a   Marquer, Laurent ^a   Russo Ermolli, Elda ^a,b   Orain, Ronan ^a   Renault Miskovsky, Josette ^a   Lordkipanidze, David ^c   Despriée, Jackie ^a   Peretto, Carlo ^d   Arzarello, Marta ^d  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c Georgian National Museum   (Georgia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUCASUS; ECOLOGICAL FACTORS; EURASIA; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; GEORGIA; HOMININS; HUMAN POPULATION; PLEISTOCENE; VEGETATION PATTERN; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION; CHRONOLOGY; DATA SET; DISPERSAL; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HOMINID; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; OCCUPATION; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; STEPPE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

EURASIA;

EID: 79957634939     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.09.008     Document Type: Article

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