Geology and lithic procurement in Upper Palaeolithic Europe: A weights-of-evidence based GIS model of lithic resource potential

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 813-824

  Duke, Christopher ^a   Steele, James ^b  

^a Research Information Systems   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embedded procurement; Lithic raw materials; Maximum transfer distance; Palaeolithic Europe; Weights of evidence

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BEDROCK; CLINE; GIS; LITHIC FRAGMENT; PALEOLITHIC; SILICEOUS DEPOSIT;

EUROPE;

EID: 77949541298     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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