Comments on "Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Paleolithic: Testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian" by William E. Banks, Francesco d'Errico, João Zilhão

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 107-111

  Ronchitelli, Annamaria ^a   Benazzi, Stefano ^b,c   Boscato, Paolo ^a   Douka, Katerina ^d   Moroni, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grotta del Cavallo; Italy; Proto Aurignacian; Uluzzian

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; FITNESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLITHIC; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

ITALY;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; FOSSIL; HUMAN;

CLIMATE; FOSSILS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84905721435     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.12.010     Document Type: Article

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