From Atapuerca to Europe: Tracing the earliest peopling of Europe

Quaternary International

Volumn 295, Issue , 2013, Pages 130-137

  Mosquera, M ^a,b   Olle A ^a,b   Rodriguez X P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; EXTINCTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA; SPAIN;

HOMO ANTECESSOR; HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS;

EID: 84876708727     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.01.031     Document Type: Article

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