Communicative capacities in Middle Pleistocene humans from the Sierra de Atapuerca in Spain

Quaternary International

Volumn 295, Issue , 2013, Pages 94-101

  Martinez I ^a,b   Rosa, M ^a   Quam, R ^b,c,d   Jarabo, P ^a   Lorenzo, C ^b,e,f   Bonmati A ^b,g   Gomez Olivencia A ^b,h   Gracia, A ^a,b   Arsuaga, J L ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

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

^f UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMINID; LANGUAGE; PLEISTOCENE; VOCALIZATION;

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

HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; PAN;

EID: 84876717748     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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