Evidence of Hominin Control of Fire at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5671, 2004, Pages 725-727

  Goren Inbar, Naama ^a   Alperson, Nira ^a   Kislev, Mordechai E ^b   Simchoni, Orit ^b   Melamed, Yoel ^b   Ben Nun, Adi ^a   Werker, Ella ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; SEED; WOOD;

FLINT FRAGMENTS; HEARTH;

FIRE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ACHEULEAN; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; FIRE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY;

ARTICLE; BARLEY; BURN; FIRE; GRAPE; ISRAEL; NONHUMAN; OLIVE; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE; WOOD;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; CEREALS; FIRES; FRAXINUS; FRUIT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; OLEA; POACEAE; SEEDS; WOOD;

ASIA; EURASIA; GESHER BENOT YA'AQOV; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NORTHERN DISTRICT;

HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. SPONTANEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; VITIS SP.;

EID: 2342442863     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1095443     Document Type: Article

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