Reply to Douka et al.: Critical evaluation of the Ksâr 'Akil chronologies

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

Volumn 112, Issue 51, 2015, Pages E7035-

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

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBON 14; OXYGEN; PROTEIN;

BAYES THEOREM; CHRONOLOGY; FOSSIL; HUMAN; LETTER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PALEOLITHIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; MIGRATION;

HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84952664643     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1520412112     Document Type: Letter

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