Continuity or discontinuity in the European Early Pleistocene human settlement: The Atapuerca evidence

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 76, Issue , 2013, Pages 53-65

  Bermúdez de Castro, José María ^a   Martinón Torres, María ^a   Blasco, Ruth ^b   Rosell, Jordi ^c,d   Carbonell, Eudald ^c,d,e  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^b Gibraltar Museum   (Gibraltar)

^c UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

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

^e INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Atapuerca; CADE; Early Pleistocene; EMPT; Europe; Ma; MIS; MRCA; SWA; TD; TE; TE LRU

Indexed keywords

ATAPUERCA; CADE; EARLY PLEISTOCENE; EMPT; EUROPE; MA; MRCA; SWA; TD; TE-LRU;

GEOLOGY; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL SCIENCES; TELLURIUM;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

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

EID: 84880416165     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.023     Document Type: Article

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