Evidence for Neandertal use of fire at Roc de Marsal (France)

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2414-2423

  Aldeias, Vera ^a   Goldberg, Paul ^b,c   Sandgathe, Dennis ^a,d   Berna, Francesco ^b   Dibble, Harold L ^a,e,f   McPherron, Shannon P ^e   Turq, Alain ^g   Rezek, Zeljko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c ROCEEH   (Germany)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Museé National de Préhistoire   (France)

Author keywords

Combustion features; Fire; Geographical information Systems; Micromorphology; Mousterian; Roc de Marsal; Spatial analyzes

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; COMBUSTION; FIRE HISTORY; GIS; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MOUSTERIAN; NEANDERTHAL; OCCUPATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AQUITAINE; DORDOGNE; FRANCE;

EID: 84860888706     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.01.039     Document Type: Article

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