Reply to Pierret et al.: Stratigraphic and dating consistency reinforces the status of Tam Pa Ling fossil

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 51, 2012, Pages

  Demeter, Fabrice ^a,b   Shackelford, Laura L ^c   Westaway, Kira E ^d   Duringer, Philippe ^e   Sayavongkhamdy, Thongsa ^f   Bacon, Anne Marie ^g  

^a Université Diderot Paris 7   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^f Ministry of Information and Culture   (Laos)

^g CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; CHARCOAL; URANIUM;

ASIA; CHRONOLOGY; FOSSIL HUMAN; HUMAN; LETTER; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 84871364364     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217629109     Document Type: Letter

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