Paleoamerican diet, migration and morphology in Brazil: Archaeological complexity of the earliest americans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Eggers, Sabine ^a   Parks, Maria ^b   Grupe, Gisela ^c   Reinhard, Karl J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BONE; BRAZIL; DIET; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXTANT SPECIES; FOREST; HUMAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PALEOAMERICAN DIET; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; SEASHORE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTORY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SKELETON; TREE;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BRAZIL; DIET; ECOLOGY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SKELETON; TREES;

EID: 80052854764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023962     Document Type: Article

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