Barriers and bridges: Early human dispersals in equatorial SE Asia

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 411, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 235-250

  Wurster, Christopher M ^a   Bird, Michael I ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DISPERSAL; HOMINID; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PREHISTORIC;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84954348648     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP411.2     Document Type: Article

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