A middle palaeolithic burial of a modern human at Taramsa hill, Egypt

Antiquity

Volumn 72, Issue 277, 1998, Pages 475-484

  Vermeersch, P M ^a   Paulissen, E ^a   Stokes, S ^b   Charlier, C ^a,c   Van Peer, P ^a   Stringer, C ^d   Lindsay, W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; PALEOLITHIC;

EGYPT;

HOMO;

EID: 0032405924     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00086919     Document Type: Article

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