A human mandible (BH-1) from the Pleistocene deposits of Mala Balanica cave (Sićevo Gorge, Niš, Serbia)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 186-196

  Roksandic, Mirjana ^a   Mihailović, Dušan ^b   Mercier, Norbert ^c   Dimitrijević, Vesna ^b   Morley, Mike W ^d   Rakočević, Zoran ^b   Mihailović, Bojana ^e   Guibert, Pierre ^c   Babb, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e National Museum   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Archaic Homo sapiens; Central Balkans; European hominin dispersals; Neandertal

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRANIUM; DISPERSAL; HUMAN EVOLUTION; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MORPHOLOGY; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY; TYPE SPECIMEN;

BALKANS; NIS; SERBIA; SICEVO GORGE;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 79957990296     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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