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 · 10 citations
Social Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.01.011

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