Middle to Late Pleistocene human habitation in the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia

Quaternary International

Volumn 382, Issue , 2015, Pages 200-214

  Scerri, Eleanor M L ^a   Breeze, Paul S ^b   Parton, Ash ^c   Groucutt, Huw S ^c   White, Tom S ^c   Stimpson, Christopher ^c   Clark Balzan, Laine ^c   Jennings, Richard ^c   Alsharekh, Abdullah ^d   Petraglia, Michael D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Lower palaeolithic; Middle palaeolithic; Pleistocene palaeoenvironments

Indexed keywords

HOMINID; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MOBILITY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANGE EXPANSION;

NEFUD; SAUDI ARABIA;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84941805755     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.09.036     Document Type: Article

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