Timing of the Lower to Middle Paleolithic boundary: New dates from the Levant

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 107-122

  Porat, Naomi ^a   Chazan, Michael ^b   Schwarcz, Henry ^c   Horwitz, Liora Kolska ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Holon; Israel; Levant; Lower Paleolithic; Middle Paleolithic; Oumm Qatafa; Tabun; Yabrud

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; DATING METHOD; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; FLINT; PALEOLITHIC; TOOTH;

ISRAEL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHRONOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GOAT; HORSE; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; CHRONOLOGY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; GOATS; HORSES; MATHEMATICS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PALEONTOLOGY; SOFTWARE; TOOTH;

EID: 0035983991     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.2002.0562     Document Type: Article

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