Late Pleistocene age and archaeological context for the hominin calvaria from GvJm-22 (Lukenya Hill, Kenya)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2682-2687

  Tryon, Christian A ^a   Crevecoeur, Isabelle ^b   Faith, J Tyler ^c   Ekshtain, Ravid ^a   Nivens, Joelle ^d   Patterson, David ^e   Mbua, Emma N ^f   Spoor, Fred ^g,h  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Homo sapiens; Later Stone Age; Middle Stone Age; Modern human origins; Ostrich eggshell

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

AGE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CALVARIA; CHRONOLOGY; EGG SHELL; FOSSIL; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MESOLITHIC; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OSTRICH; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SKULL; KENYA; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY;

CRANIA; HOMINIDAE; HOMO SAPIENS; STRUTHIONIFORMES;

CRANIOLOGY; FOSSILS; HUMANS; KENYA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SKULL;

EID: 84924386816     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1417909112     Document Type: Article

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