The age of the 20 meter Solo River Terrace, Java, Indonesia and the survival of homo erectus in Asia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Indriati, Etty ^a   Swisher III, Carl C ^b   Lepre, Christopher ^b,c   Quinn, Rhonda L ^b,d   Suriyanto, Rusyad A ^a   Hascaryo, Agus T ^a   Grün, Rainer ^e   Feibel, Craig S ^b   Pobiner, Briana L ^f   Aubert, Maxime ^e   Lees, Wendy ^e   Antón, Susan C ^g  

^a GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^g NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; ARGON 39; ARGON 40; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FOSSIL HOMININ; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HEATING; HUMAN; INDONESIA; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SEDIMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; ANIMAL; HOMINID; RIVER;

HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO SAPIENS;

ANIMALS; ARGON; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; INDONESIA; RIVERS;

EID: 79959630414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021562     Document Type: Article

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