The oldest handaxes in Europe: Fact or artefact?

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3340-3349

  Jiménez Arenas, Juan Manuel ^a,b   Santonja, Manuel ^c   Botella, Miguel ^d   Palmqvist, Paul ^e  

^a Dpto de Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acheulean handaxes; Biostratigraphy; Early Pleistocene; Paleomagnetism; Southeast Spain

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRUNHES CHRON; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOMINID; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TOOL USE;

SPAIN;

HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80054123836     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.07.020     Document Type: Article

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