Southern Iberia as a refuge for the last Neanderthal populations

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1873-1885

  Jennings, Richard ^a   Finlayson, Clive ^b,c   Fa, Darren ^b   Finlayson, Geraldine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Gibraltar Museum   (Gibraltar)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioclimates; Biogeography; Climate models; Ecology; GIS; Middle Palaeolithic; Neanderthal; Refugium; Southern Iberia; Upper Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL ZONE; DATA SET; GIS; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MACROECOLOGY; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; RAINFALL; REFUGIUM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

GIBRALTAR; IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 80052692047     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02536.x     Document Type: Article

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