Migration of hominins with megaherbivores into europe via the danube-po gateway in the late matuyama climate revolution

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 351-365

  Muttoni, Giovanni ^a   Kent, Dennis V ^b   Scardia, Giancarlo ^c   Monesi, Edoardo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Rutgers University   (United States)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climate changes; Early pleistocene; Europe; Hominins; Migrations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; FOOD WEB; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HERBIVORE; HOMINID; MAMMAL; MATUYAMA CHRON; MIGRATION; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SAVANNA;

BALKANS; GREECE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84923574219     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: 20394942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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