Gibraltar data are too sparse to inform on Neanderthal exploitation of coastal resources

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 51, 2008, Pages

  Klein, Richard G ^a   Steele, Teresa E ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; DOLPHIN; FISH; FISHING; GIBRALTAR; LETTER; MESOLITHIC; MOLLUSC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; STONE AGE;

ANIMALS; FOOD HABITS; FOSSILS; GIBRALTAR; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PALEONTOLOGY; SEAFOOD;

EID: 58149479403     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809985106     Document Type: Letter

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