Modeling the impacts of mediterranean Island colonization by archa hominins: Te likelihood of an insular Lower Palaeolithic

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 231-253

  Leppard, Tomas P ^a  

^a International Archaeological Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Colonization; Lower Palaeolithic; Mediterranean islands; Palaeoenvironments

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; PALEONTOLOGY;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE [GREECE]; GREECE;

EID: 84921896278     PISSN: 09527648     EISSN: 17431700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/jmea.v27i2.231     Document Type: Article

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