Humans, water, and the colonization of Australia

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

Volumn 113, Issue 41, 2016, Pages 11477-11482

  Bird, Michael I ^a   O'Grady, Damien ^a,b   Ulm, Sean ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Astron Environmental Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human dispersal; Paleohydrological corridor; Pleistocene colonization; Radiocarbon; Sahul

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DENSITY; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; OCCUPATION; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY; ARCHEOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; MIGRATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARCHAEOLOGY; AUSTRALIA; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER; WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84991491252     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1608470113     Document Type: Article

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