The first human dispersal to Europe: Remarks on the archaeological and palaeoanthropologìcal record from Orce (Guadix-Baza basin, southeastern Spain)

Human Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 55-77

  Arribas, A ^a   Palmqvist, P ^b  

^a Inst Geol Minero Espana   (Spain)

^b Facultad de Medicina   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barranco Le n; BL5 0; Faunal dispersal events; Fuente Nueva; Lithic artefacts; Lower pleistocene; Venta Micena; VM O

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744566066     PISSN: 03939375     EISSN: 1824310X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02436429     Document Type: Article

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