Climatic conditions for the last Neanderthals: Herpetofaunal record of Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 289-299

  Blain, Hugues Alexandre ^a,b   Gleed Owen, Chris P ^c   López García, Juan Manuel ^a,b   Carrión, José Sebastian ^d   Jennings, Richard ^e   Finlayson, Geraldine ^f   Finlayson, Clive ^f,g   Giles Pacheco, Francisco ^f  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c CGO Ecology Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^f Gibraltar Museum   (Gibraltar)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Homo neanderthalensis; Mutual climatic range; Palaeoclimate; Pleistocene; Reptiles; Southern iberian range

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AMPHIBIAN; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARIDITY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REPTILE; SURVIVAL;

ALBORAN SEA; GIBRALTAR; GORHAMS CAVE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

AMPHIBIA; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS; REPTILIA;

EID: 84875222109     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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