High-resolution record of the Matuyama-Brunhes transition constrains the age of Javanese Homo erectus in the Sangiran dome, Indonesia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 49, 2011, Pages 19563-19568

  Hyodo, Masayuki ^a   Matsu'ura, Shuji ^b   Kamishima, Yuko ^a   Kondo, Megumi ^b   Takeshita, Yoshihiro ^c   Kitaba, Ikuko ^a   Danhara, Tohru ^d   Aziz, Fachroel ^e   Kurniawan, Iwan ^e   Kumai, Hisao ^f  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Kyoto Fission Track Corporation ^*  (Japan)

^e GEOLOGICAL AGENCY   (Indonesia)

^f Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Magnetostratigraphy; Marine isotope stage 19; Paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; FOSSIL HOMINID; HUMAN; INDONESIA; MAGNETIC FIELD; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; STRATIGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; INDONESIA; MAGNETICS; PALEONTOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 83755195312     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113106108     Document Type: Article

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