Late Pleistocene palaeolake in the interior of Oman: A potential key area for the dispersal of anatomically modern humans out-of-Africa?

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-16

  Rosenberg, Thomas M ^a   Preusser, Frank ^a,d   Blechschmidt, Ingo ^b   Fleitmann, Dominik ^a   Jagher, Reto ^c   Matter, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NAGRA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anatomically modern humans; OSL; Palaeolake; Saiwan; TT OSL

Indexed keywords

FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

OMAN;

ALGAE;

EID: 84855802122     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1560     Document Type: Article

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