“Out of Africa I”: Current Problems and Future Prospects

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048190355, 2010, Pages 247-273

  Dennell, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asia; Colonization; Dispersal; Homo erectus; Pleistocene; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045855081     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9036-2_15     Document Type: Chapter

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