Middle and Late Pleistocene Landscape Evolution at the Druze Marsh Site in Northeast Jordan: Implications for Population Continuity and Hominin Dispersal

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 307-329

  Ames, Christopher J H ^a   Cordova, Carlos E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; HOMINID; MARSH; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PREHISTORIC; REFUGIUM; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; EASTERN DESERT; EGYPT; EURASIA; JORDAN;

EID: 84936864486     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21516     Document Type: Article

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