Earliest known use of marine resources by neanderthals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Cortés Sánchez, Miguel ^a   Morales Muñiz, Arturo ^b   Simón Vallejo, María D ^c   Lozano Francisco, María C ^d   Vera Peláez, José L ^d   Finlayson, Clive ^e,f   Rodríguez Vidal, Joaquín ^g   Delgado Huertas, Antonio ^h   Jiménez Espejo, Francisco J ^h   Martínez Ruiz, Francisca ^h   Martínez Aguirre, M Aranzazu ^a   Pascual Granged, Arturo J ^a   Bergadà Zapata, M Mercè ⁱ   Gibaja Bao, Juan F ^j   Riquelme Cantal, José A ^h   López Sáez, J Antonio ^k   Rodrigo Gámiz, Marta ^h   Sakai, Saburo ^l   Sugisaki, Saiko ^l   Finlayson, Geraldine ^e   Fa, Darren A ^e   Bicho, Nuno F ^m   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Fundacion Cueva de Nerja   (Spain)

^d Museo Municipal Paleontológico de Estepona   (Spain)

^e Gibraltar Museum   (Gibraltar)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^j CSIC   (Spain)

^k Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales   (Spain)

^l JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; MARINE SPECIES; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POLLEN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHELLFISH; SPAIN; STRATIGRAPHY; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; ANIMAL; HISTORY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEDIMENT;

MOLLUSCA;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MOLLUSCA; NEANDERTHALS; POLLEN; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SHELLFISH; SPAIN;

EID: 80052842462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024026     Document Type: Article

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