Use of red ochre by early Neandertals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1889-1894

  Roebroeks, Wil ^a   Sier, Mark J ^a,b,c   Nielsen, Trine Kellberg ^a   De Loecker, Dimitri ^a   Parés, Josep Maria ^b   Arps, Charles E S ^d   Mücher, Herman J ^e  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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

^c Paleomagnetic Laboratory Utrecht   (Netherlands)

^d NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Human evolution; Middle paleolithic; Mineral pigments; Paleolithic archeology

Indexed keywords

FERRIC OXIDE; IRON OXIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DOCUMENTATION; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; INTERGLACIAL; NETHERLANDS; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER;

ANIMALS; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; NEANDERTHALS; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84857133886     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1112261109     Document Type: Article

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