Age Ranges of Australopithecus Species, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789400759183, 2013, Pages 7-20

  Brown, Francis H ^a   McDougall, Ian ^b   Gathogo, Patrick N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geology; Hominin evolution; Omo Group; Radiometric dating; Tephrostratigraphy; Turkana Basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973336176     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5919-0_2     Document Type: Chapter

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