New radiocarbon dates for the Zagros Aurignacian from Yafteh cave, Iran

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 340-346

  Otte, Marcel ^a   Shidrang, Sonia ^b   Zwyns, Nicolas ^c   Flas, Damien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ahmarian; Aurignacian; Bladelet; Late Pleistocene; Upper Paleolithic; Western Asia

Indexed keywords

PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ZAGROS;

EID: 80051468988     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.05.011     Document Type: Article

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