Tracking Ecological Change in Relation to the Emergence of Homo Near the Plio-Pleistocene Boundary

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402099793, 2009, Pages 159-171

  Reed, Kaye E ^a   Russak, Samantha M ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

East Africa; Homo erectus; Homo habilis; Mammalian community structure; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885745881     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9980-9_14     Document Type: Chapter

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