Neandertal demise: An archaeological analysis of the modern human superiority complex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Villa, Paola ^a,b,c   Roebroeks, Wil ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BREEDING; COGNITION; FOSSIL; HEAT TREATMENT; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MESOLITHIC; MODERN TIMES; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOLITHIC; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SYMBOLISM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEAPON;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NEANDERTHALS;

EID: 84899759011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096424     Document Type: Article

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