Women and girls as upper palaeolithic cave 'artists': Deciphering the sexes of finger fluters in Rouffignac cave

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 323-333

  Van Gelder, Leslie ^a   Sharpe, Kevin ^a  

^a WALDEN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVE; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; MALE; PALEOLITHIC; PHYSIOLOGY; WOMENS STATUS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350635195     PISSN: 02625253     EISSN: 14680092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2009.00331.x     Document Type: Article

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