The repeated replacement model - Rapid climate change and population dynamics in Late Pleistocene Europe

Quaternary International

Volumn 247, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 38-49

  Bradtmöller, Marcel ^a   Pastoors, Andreas ^a   Weninger, Bernhard ^b   Weniger, Gerd Christian ^a  

^a Neanderthal Museum   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; CULTURAL CHANGE; CULTURAL TRADITION; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HEINRICH EVENT; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOLITHIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84655176714     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.10.015     Document Type: Article

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