South Asia as a Geographic Crossroad: Patterns and Predictions of Hominin Morphology in Pleistocene India

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048190935, 2011, Pages 129-141

  Athreya, Sheela ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homo erectus; Homo heidelbergensis; Middle Pleistocene; Multidirectional dispersals; Narmada

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045693980     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9094-2_10     Document Type: Chapter

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