U-series and radiocarbon analyses of human and faunal remains from Wajak, Indonesia

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 356-365

  Storm, Paul ^a,b   Wood, Rachel ^c   Stringer, Chris ^d   Bartsiokas, Antonis ^e   De Vos, John ^a   Aubert, Maxime ^c,f   Kinsley, Les ^c   Grün, Rainer ^c  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROTTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Homo sapiens; Indonesia; Late Pleistocene; Palaeoanthropology; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BONE; FAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SKELETAL REMAINS; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

INDONESIA;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84875887904     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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