Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1343-1352

  O'Regan, H J ^a   Turner, A ^a   Bishop, L C ^a   Elton, S ^b   Lamb, A L ^c  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; DISPERSAL ROUTES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HOMININS; MULTI-SPECIES; NON-HUMAN PRIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIO-PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE;

MAMMALS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DISPERSAL; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOMINID; MAMMAL; MIGRATION ROUTE; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; TOOL USE;

BOVIDAE; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 79957642412     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.028     Document Type: Article

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