Bone as a technological raw material at the Gran Dolina site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 125-131

  Rosell, Jordi ^a   Blasco, Ruth ^a   Campeny, Gerard ^a   Díez, J Carlos ^b   Alcalde, Rodrigo Alonso ^b   Menéndez, Leticia ^a   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^c,d   Bermúdez de Castro, José M ^e   Carbonell, Eudald ^a,f  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

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

^f INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bone tools; Middle Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

BONE; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PLEISTOCENE; TOOL USE;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA; SPAIN;

EID: 79956133923     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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