How " African" was the early human dispersal out of Africa?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1338-1342

  Agustí, Jordi ^a   Lordkipanidze, David ^b  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b Georgian National Museum   (Georgia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMININS; PLEISTOCENE;

BRAIN; CULTURAL TRADITION; DATUM; DISPERSAL; HOMINID; MIGRATION ROUTE; PLEISTOCENE;

AFRICA; DMANISI; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC);

EID: 79957647431     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.012     Document Type: Article

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