New chronology for Ksâr 'Akil (Lebanon) supports Levantine route of modern human dispersal into Europe

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

Volumn 112, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 7683-7688

  Bosch, Marjolein D ^a   Mannino, Marcello A ^a   Prendergast, Amy L ^b   O'Connell, Tamsin C ^c   Demarchi, Beatrice ^d   Taylor, Sheila M ^d   Niven, Laura ^a   Van Der Plicht, Johannes ^e,f   Hublin, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronology; Modern human dispersal; Near east; Upper paleolithic; Zooarcheology

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; EUROPE; FOSSIL; GASTROPOD; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAXILLA; PALEOLITHIC; PHORCUS TURBINATUS; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SKELETON; BAYES THEOREM; CHEMISTRY; HISTORY; LEBANON; MIGRATION; STEREOISOMERISM;

GASTROPODA;

AMINO ACID; CARBON; OXYGEN;

AFRICA; AMINO ACIDS; BAYES THEOREM; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; EUROPE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; LEBANON; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84934978928     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1501529112     Document Type: Article

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