Fine resolution of early hominin time, Beds I and II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 300-308

  Stanistreet, Ian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dansgaard Oeschger events; Incised surface; Lake parasequence; Oldowan hominins; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

HOMINID; LAKE LEVEL; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION; TUFF;

ARUSHA [TANZANIA]; OLDUVAI GORGE; TANZANIA;

DEINOTHERIUM; ELEPHANTIDAE; GIRAFFIDAE;

EID: 84864572185     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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