Technological complexity and the global dispersal of modern humans

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 285-299

  Hoffecker, John F ^a   Hoffecker, Ian T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

anatomically modern humans; out of Africa dispersals; technological complexity

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOLOGY; ASIA; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; CAVE; CLOTHING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EUROPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; PALEOLITHIC DIET; TECHNOLOGY;

AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOLOGY; ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; CAVES; CLOTHING; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DIET, PALEOLITHIC; EUROPE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 85038411904     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: 15206505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21553     Document Type: Article

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