Further geological and palaeoanthropological investigations at the Maludong hominin site, Yunnan Province, Southwest China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 35, 2013, Pages 4472-4485

  Ji, XuePing ^a   Curnoe, Darren ^b   Bao, ZhenDe ^c   Herries, Andy I R ^d   Fink, David ^e   Zhu, YunSheng ^f   Hellstrom, John ^g   Luo, Yun ^c   Tacon, Paul S C ^h  

^a Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Mengzi Institute of Cultural Relics   (China)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^f Honghe Prefectural Institute of Cultural Relics   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^h GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

archaic morphology; dating; human evolution; Southwest China; Upper Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

HAPLORHINI; MACACA; MACACA ASSAMENSIS;

EID: 84887615809     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-6026-5     Document Type: Article

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