Neanderthals and the modern human colonization of Europe

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7016, 2004, Pages 461-465

  Mellars, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIERS; RESEARCH;

ARTEFACTS; HUMAN COLONIZATION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

COLONIZATION; HOMINID; NEANDERTHAL;

ARCHEOLOGY; ART; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; HOMINID; HUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

HOMINIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 9644277031     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03103     Document Type: Review

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