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Flemming, Nicholas; Cagatay, M. Namik; Chiocci, Francesco Latino; Galanidou, Nena; Jons, Hauke; Lericolais, Gilles; Missiaen, Tine; Moore, Fionnbarr; Rosentau, Alar; Sakellariou, Dimitris; Skar, Brigitte; Stevenson, Alan; Weerts, Henk. |
During the last one million years the land area of Europe was at times 40% larger than at present, and was usually 10-20% larger because of the global volumes of water locked up in ice-caps several kilometres thick on land. Our human precursors lived 200km inland from the coast of the Black Sea more than 1.5 million years ago, in northern Spain more than 1 million years ago, and on the British coast of the North Sea at least 800,000 years ago. Early tribes migrated from Africa through the Middle East, and then along the Mediterranean shore, as well as through central Europe, occupying northern territories when the ice melted and retreating southward when the ice expanded. These migrations across continental shelves, including the abandonment and... |
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Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00272/38363/36668.pdf |
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