Hominin fire use in the Okote member at Koobi Fora, Kenya: New evidence for the old debate

2019/07/16 by Sarah Hlubik, Russell Cutts, David R. Braun +4 · 96 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Biological evolution #Biology #Early Pleistocene #Ecology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Geography #Geology #Hearth #Hominidae #Homo erectus #Human evolution #Natural (archaeology) #Paleontology #Pleistocene #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Primate Behavior and Ecology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.01.010

published in Journal of Human Evolution 133, 214-229 (Elsevier BV)

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