Earliest hominin occupation of Sulawesi, Indonesia

Nature

Volumn 529, Issue 7585, 2016, Pages 208-211

  Van Den Bergh, Gerrit D ^a,b   Li, Bo ^a   Brumm, Adam ^c,d   Grün, Rainer ^c   Yurnaldi, Dida ^a,e   Moore, Mark W ^f   Kurniawan, Iwan ^e   Setiawan, Ruly ^a,e   Aziz, Fachroel ^e   Roberts, Richard G ^a   Suyono, ^e   Storey, Michael ^g   Setiabudi, Erick ^e   Morwood, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^e GEOLOGICAL AGENCY   (Indonesia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HOMINID; KARST; LIMESTONE; MAMMAL; OCCUPATION; PLEISTOCENE; SPELEOTHEM; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ARTICLE; FOSSIL HOMININ; HUMAN; INDONESIA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; ANIMAL; FOSSIL; HISTORY; HOMINID; MIGRATION; TOOL USE;

AUSTRALIA; EAST NUSA TENGGARA; FLORES [LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS]; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; PAPUA [(PRV) INDONESIA]; SULAWESI; SUNDA ISLES;

BUBALUS SP.; GABAZA; HOMO SAPIENS;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; INDONESIA; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84954501860     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature16448     Document Type: Article

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