Chronology of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Abric Romaní, Catalunya

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-103

  Camps, Marta ^a   Higham, Thomas ^b  

^a THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMS dates; Earliest Aurignacian; Iberia; Mid Upper Paleolithic transition; Perforated personal ornaments

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOLITHIC; PERFORATION; RADIOCARBON DATING; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84855200858     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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