Ochre and hide-working at a Natufian burial place

Antiquity

Volumn 83, Issue 322, 2009, Pages 935-954

  Dubreuil, Laure ^a   Grosman, Leore ^b,c  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Burial site; Epi Palaeolithic; Ground stones; Hilazon Tachtit cave; Natufian; Ochre; Southern Levant; Thirteenth millennium BP; Use wear

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952937695     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00099269     Document Type: Article

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