Early and Middle Pleistocene Faunal and hominins dispersals through Southwestern Asia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1318-1337

  Bar Yosef, Ofer ^a   Belmaker, Miriam ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX MODEL; CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; EASTERN EUROPE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EURASIA; FIELD RESEARCH; HOMININS; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SUB-REGIONS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

ECOLOGY;

ADAPTATION; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CULTURAL HISTORY; DISPERSAL; EXCAVATION STRUCTURE; FAUNISTICS; HOMINID; MIGRATORY POPULATION; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCCUPATION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SURVIVAL;

ASIA; EASTERN EUROPE; IRAN;

EID: 79957652489     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.016     Document Type: Article

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