What about causal mechanisms promoting early hominin dispersal in Eurasia? A research agenda for answering a hotly debated question

Quaternary International

Volumn 295, Issue , 2013, Pages 13-27

  Palombo, Maria Rita ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOMORPHOLOGY; FAUNA; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EURASIA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84876717863     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.12.019     Document Type: Article

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