The environmental context for the origins of modern human diversity: A synthesis of regional variability in African climate 150,000–30,000 years ago

2012/04/17 by Margaret Whiting Blome, Andrew S. Cohen, Christian A. Tryon +3 · 306 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Climate change #Climate oscillation #Climatology #Context (archaeology) #Effects of global warming #Geography #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Glacial period #Global warming #Interglacial #Last Glacial Maximum #Northern Hemisphere #Oceanography #Paleoclimatology #Paleontology #Physical geography #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Population #Precipitation #Southern Hemisphere

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.01.011

published in Journal of Human Evolution 62(5), 563-592 (Elsevier BV)

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