Fifty thousand years of flint knapping and tool shaping across the Mousterian and Uluzzian sequence of Fumane cave

Quaternary International

Volumn 247, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 125-150

  Peresani, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; FLINT; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MOUSTERIAN; NEANDERTHAL; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TOOL USE; ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION;

FUMANE CAVE; ITALY; VENETO; VERONA;

ANTIRHEA; DISCOIDAE;

EID: 84655170012     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.02.006     Document Type: Article

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