Olduvai Gorge and the Olduvai Landscape Paleoanthropology Project

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 247-250

  Blumenschine, Robert J ^a   Stanistreet, Ian G ^b   Masao, Fidelis T ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; LANDSCAPE;

ARUSHA [TANZANIA]; OLDUVAI GORGE; TANZANIA;

EID: 84864544797     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.05.005     Document Type: Article

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