The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe

Nature

Volumn 479, Issue 7374, 2011, Pages 521-524

  Higham, Tom ^a   Compton, Tim ^b   Stringer, Chris ^b   Jacobi, Roger ^b,c   Shapiro, Beth ^d   Trinkaus, Erik ^e   Chandler, Barry ^f   Gröning, Flora ^g   Collins, Chris ^b   Hillson, Simon ^h   O'Higgins, Paul ⁱ   FitzGerald, Charles ^j   Fagan, Michael ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH MUSEUM   (United Kingdom)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Torquay Museum   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^j MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; COLLAGEN;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ANATOMY; ARCHAEOLOGY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CHRONOLOGY; DATA SET; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PALEOLITHIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRATIGRAPHY; TAXONOMY;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHRONOLOGY; DENTITION; EUROPE; FOSSIL; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MAXILLA; PALEOLITHIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CAVES; DENTITION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FOSSILS; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MAXILLA; NEANDERTHALS; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

EUROPE;

EID: 81855164876     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10484     Document Type: Article

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