The Sima de los Huesos (Burgos, northern Spain): Palaeoenvironment and habitats of Homo heidelbergensis during the Middle Pleistocene

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1413-1419

  García, Nuria ^a,b   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CYCLES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY; FORESTED LANDSCAPES; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HUMAN EVOLUTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIODIVERSITY;

CARNIVORE; CLIMATE CYCLE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DISPERSAL; FOSSIL RECORD; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOMINID; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; UNGULATE; WOODLAND;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA; SPAIN;

HOMINIDAE; HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; UNGULATA;

EID: 79957638292     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.11.008     Document Type: Article

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