New Middle Pleistocene dental remains from Qesem Cave (Israel)

Quaternary International

Volumn 398, Issue , 2016, Pages 148-158

  Hershkovitz, Israel ^a   Weber, Gerhard W ^b   Fornai, Cinzia ^b   Gopher, Avi ^a   Barkai, Ran ^a   Slon, Viviane ^a   Quam, Rolf ^c,d,e   Gabet, Yankel ^a   Sarig, Rachel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Centro UCM ISCIII para la Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos   (Spain)

^e DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early H. sapiens; Middle Paleolithic; Midtrigonoid crest; Neanderthals; Qesem Cave; Teeth

Indexed keywords

CAVE; MORPHOLOGY; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOLITHIC; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY; TOOTH;

CENTRAL DISTRICT; ISRAEL; QESEM CAVE;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84945542621     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.059     Document Type: Article

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