Redating shuidonggou locality 1 and implications for the initial upper paleolithic in east asia

Radiocarbon

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 165-179

  Morgan, Christopher ^a   Barton, Loukas ^b   Yi, Mingjie ^c   Bettinger, Robert L ^d   Gao, Xing ^c   Peng, Fei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATING METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PALEOLITHIC; REGIONAL PATTERN;

FAR EAST;

EID: 84896882208     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2458/56.16270     Document Type: Article

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