The environmental context for the origins of modern human diversity: A synthesis of regional variability in African climate 150,000-30,000 years ago

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 563-592

  Blome, Margaret Whiting ^a   Cohen, Andrew S ^a   Tryon, Christian A ^b   Brooks, Alison S ^c   Russell, Joellen ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Homo sapiens; Paleoclimate; Pleistocene; Population dispersal

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARIDITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR RADIATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SAHARA;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84860333985     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.01.011     Document Type: Article

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