An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000-63,000 years ago

Nature

Volumn 548, Issue 7667, 2017, Pages 322-325

  Westaway, K E ^a   Louys, J ^b   Awe, R Due ^c   Morwood, M J ^d   Price, G J ^e   Zhao, J X ^e   Aubert, M ^f   Joannes Boyau, R ^g   Smith, T M ^f,h   Skinner, M M ^i,j   Compton, T ^k   Bailey, R M ^l   Van Den Bergh, G D ^d   De Vos, J ^m   Pike, A W G ^b   Stringer, C ⁿ   Saptomo, E W ^k   Rizal, Y ^c   Zaim, J ^o   Santoso, W D ^o   Trihascaryo, A ^o   Kinsley, L ^b   Sulistyanto, B ^c   more..

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Indonesian Centre for Archaeology   (Indonesia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^j MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^k DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^m NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^o BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Indonesia)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; URANIUM;

ANATOMY; ARCHAEOLOGY; DISPERSAL; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC RESOURCE; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; OCCUPATION; RAINFOREST; TOOTH; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; DENTIN; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENAMEL; FOSSIL; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; LUMINESCENCE; MOLAR TOOTH; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIZATION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; TOOTH; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CAVE; HISTORY; INDONESIA; MIGRATION; RAIN FOREST;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

MAMMALIA;

CAVES; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; INDONESIA; LUMINESCENCE; RAINFOREST; TOOTH; URANIUM;

EID: 85027852151     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature23452     Document Type: Article

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