Hominin Dispersal into the Nefud Desert and Middle Palaeolithic Settlement along the Jubbah Palaeolake, Northern Arabia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Petraglia, Michael D ^a,b   Alsharekh, Abdullah ^c,d   Breeze, Paul ^e   Clarkson, Chris ^f   Crassard, Rémy ^g   Drake, Nick A ^e   Groucutt, Huw S ^a   Jennings, Richard ^h   Parker, Adrian G ⁱ   Parton, Ash ⁱ   Roberts, Richard G ^j   Shipton, Ceri ^f   Matheson, Carney ^k   al Omari, Abdulaziz ^l   Veall, Margaret Ashley ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Ministry of Education Saudi Arabia   (Saudi Arabia)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

ⁱ OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^k LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l The Saudi General Commission for Tourism and Antiquities   (Saudi Arabia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ASIA; DESERT; ECOLOGY; FOSSIL HOMININ; FOSSIL HUMAN; GENERAL DEVICE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRASSLAND; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOLITHIC; POPULATION DISPERSAL; STONE TOOL; TECHNOLOGY; TOOL USE; TREE; UPPER PLEISTOCENE;

ANIMALS; ARABIA; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; NEANDERTHALS; PALEONTOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84869847355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049840     Document Type: Article

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