Connecting areas: Faunal refits as a diagnostic element to identify synchronicity in the Abric Romaní archaeological assemblages

Quaternary International

Volumn 252, Issue , 2012, Pages 56-67

  Rosell, Jordi ^a   Blasco, Ruth ^a   Fernández Laso, M Cristina ^a   Vaquero, Manuel ^a   Carbonell, Eudald ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; FAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PALEOLITHIC; SEDIMENTATION; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SKELETAL REMAINS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAVERTINE;

SPAIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84856594116     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.02.019     Document Type: Article

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