People of the ancient rainforest: Late Pleistocene foragers at the Batadomba-lena rockshelter, Sri Lanka

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 254-269

  Perera, Nimal ^a,b   Kourampas, Nikos ^c,d   Simpson, Ian A ^c   Deraniyagala, Siran U ^a   Bulbeck, David ^b   Kamminga, Johan ^b   Perera, Jude ^a   Fuller, Dorian Q ^e   Szabó, Katherine ^f   Oliveira, Nuno V ^b  

^a Excavation Branch   (Sri Lanka)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental archaeology; Homo sapiens; Late Palaeolithic; Microliths; Rainforest foragers; South Asia

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARIDITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOLOCENE; MODERNITY; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; RAINFOREST;

SRI LANKA;

ANIMALIA; BASOMMATOPHORA; CANARIUM; GASTROPODA; HAPLORHINI; HOMO SAPIENS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 80051468909     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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