Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar-The persistence of a Neanderthal population

Quaternary International

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-71

  Finlayson, Clive ^a,b   Fa, Darren A ^a   Jiménez Espejo, Francisco ^c,d   Carrión, Jóse S ^e   Finlayson, Geraldine ^a   Giles Pacheco, Francisco ^f   Rodríguez Vidal, Joaquín ^g   Stringer, Chris ^h   Martínez Ruiz, Francisca ^c  

^a Gibraltar Museum   (Gibraltar)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^f Museo Arqueológico de El Puerto de Santa Maria   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^h DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVE; CULTURE; DATING METHOD; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOLITHIC; STRATIGRAPHY; SURVIVAL;

EID: 41849129951     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.11.016     Document Type: Article

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