Stone age seafaring in the Mediterranean: Evidence from the Plakias region for Lower Palaeolithic and Mesolithic habitation of Crete

Hesperia

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 145-190

  Strasser, Thomas F ^a   Thompson, Nicholas ^b   Panagopoulou, Eleni ^c   Karkanas, Panayiotis ^c   Runnels, Curtis N ^d   McCoy, Floyd W ^e   Murray, Priscilla M ^d   Wegmann, Karl W ^f  

^a PROVIDENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology of Southern Greece ^*  (Greece)

^c Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology Speleology of Southern Greece   (Greece)

^d Boston University   (United States)

^e University of Hawaii Windward Community College   (United States)

^f NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79956260219     PISSN: 0018098X     EISSN: 15535622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2972/hesp.79.2.145     Document Type: Review

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