Age and context of the oldest known hominin fossils from Flores

Nature

Volumn 534, Issue 7606, 2016, Pages 249-253

  Brumm, Adam ^a,b   Van Den Bergh, Gerrit D ^b   Storey, Michael ^c   Kurniawan, Iwan ^d   Alloway, Brent V ^b,e   Setiawan, Ruly ^b,f   Setiyabudi, Erick ^d   Grün, Rainer ^a,g   Moore, Mark W ^h   Yurnaldi, Dida ^b,f   Puspaningrum, Mika R ^b   Wibowo, Unggul P ^b,d   Insani, Halmi ^d   Sutisna, Indra ^d   Westgate, John A ⁱ   Pearce, Nick J G ^j   Duval, Mathieu ^k   Meijer, Hanneke J M ^l   Aziz, Fachroel ^d   Sutikna, Thomas ^b,m   Van Der Kaars, Sander ^n,o   Flude, Stephanie ^p   Morwood, Michael J ^b   more..

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d Geology Museum   (Indonesia)

^e VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^f GEOLOGICAL AGENCY   (Indonesia)

^g AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^j ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^k CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^m Pusat Arkeologi Nasional   (Indonesia)

ⁿ VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^o MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^p UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; ARGON; RADIOISOTOPE;

AGE DETERMINATION; ANCESTRY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DENSITY CURRENT; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; SAVANNA; TYPE SPECIMEN; VOLCANIC ASH;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CHRONOLOGY; DENSITY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FAUNA; FOSSIL HOMININ; HABITAT; HUMAN; INDONESIA; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MATA MENGE HOMININ; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; NONHUMAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAVANNA; STONE FORMATION; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; VOLCANIC ASH; WETLAND; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSIL; GRASSLAND; HISTORY; HOMINID; RADIOMETRIC DATING; TOOL USE; TOOTH; VOLCANO;

EAST NUSA TENGGARA; FLORES [LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS]; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUNDA ISLES;

HOMO FLORESIENSIS;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARGON; CLIMATE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSILS; GRASSLAND; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; INDONESIA; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRIC DATING; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR; TOOTH; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; WETLANDS;

EID: 84973643966     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17663     Document Type: Article

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