A new lower pleistocene archeological site in Europe (Vallparadís, Barcelona, Spain)

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

Volumn 107, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 5762-5767

  Martínez, Kenneth ^a   Garcia, Joan ^a   Carbonell, Eudald ^a   Agustí, Jordi ^a   Bahain, Jean Jaques ^b   Blain, Hugues Alexandre ^a   Burjachs, Francesc ^a   Cáceres, Isabel ^a   Duval, Mathieu ^c   Falguères, Christophe ^b   Gómez, Manuel ^d   Huguet, Rosa ^a  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^d Cartographic Institute of Catalonia ICC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URANIUM;

ANALYSIS; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARCASS; CHRONOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FOSSIL; INFORMATION; LOWER PLEISTOCENE; MAMMAL; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 77950521996     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0913856107     Document Type: Article

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