Potential contributions of Korean pleistocene hominin fossils to palaeoanthropology: A view from ryonggok cave

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 31-57

  Bae, Christopher J ^a   Guyomarc’h, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Geometric morphometrics; Korea; Late pleistocene; Modern human origins; Odontometrics

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CAVE; FOSSIL; HOMINID; MORPHOMETRY; PLEISTOCENE;

KOREA;

HOMO ERECTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84949937305     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: 15358283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2015.0002     Document Type: Article

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