The History of Hominin Occupation of Central Asia in Review

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048190935, 2011, Pages 101-112

  Glantz, Michelle M ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Anghilak Cave; Central Asia; Colonization; Early Pleistocene; Hominin migration; Initial Upper Paleolithic; Middle Paleolithic variability; Obi Rakhmat Grotto; Uzbekistan

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045694796     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9094-2_8     Document Type: Chapter

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