Gibraltar Neanderthals and results of recent excavations in Gorham's, Vanguard and Ibex Caves

Antiquity

Volumn 73, Issue 279, 1999, Pages 13-23

  Barton, R N E ^a   Currant, A P ^b   Fernandez Jalvo, Y ^b   Finlayson, J C ^c   Goldberg, P ^d   Macphail, R ^e   Pettitt, P B ^f   Stringer, C B ^b  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c Gibraltar Museum   (Gibraltar)

^d Boston University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gibraltar; Middle upper palaeolithic; Neanderthal; Palaeontology

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; PALEOLITHIC; PALEONTOLOGY; SKULL;

GIBRALTAR;

HOMO;

EID: 0033024405     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00087809     Document Type: Article

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