New evidence on Neandertal use of fire: Examples from Roc de Marsal and Pech de l'Azé IV

Quaternary International

Volumn 247, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 325-340

  Goldberg, Paul ^a   Dibble, Harold ^b,c,d   Berna, Francesco ^a   Sandgathe, Dennis ^c,e   McPherron, Shannon J P ^c   Turq, Alain ^f  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; COMBUSTION; FIRE HISTORY; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOLITHIC;

AQUITAINE; DORDOGNE; FRANCE;

EID: 84655176636     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.11.015     Document Type: Article

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