The new chronology of the Ceprano calvarium (Italy)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 580-585

  Manzi, Giorgio ^a,b   Magri, Donatella ^a,b   Milli, Salvatore ^a,b   Palombo, Maria Rita ^a,b   Margari, Vasiliki ^c   Celiberti, Vincenzo ^b,d   Barbieri, Mario ^a   Barbieri, Maurizio ^a   Melis, Rita T ^e   Rubini, Mauro ^f   Ruffo, Massimo ^b   Saracino, Barbara ^b   Tzedakis, Polychronis C ^c   Zarattini, Annalisa ^b,f   Biddittu, Italo ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d CERP Centre Européen de Recherches Préhistoriques de Tautavel   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^f Soprintendenza Archeologica del Lazio   (Italy)

Author keywords

" Archaic" Homo; Geochronology; Middle Pleistocene; Paleolithic modes 1 2; Palynology; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOMINID; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; SKULL; TAPHONOMY;

ITALY;

EID: 77958166708     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.06.010     Document Type: Article

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