First Epigravettian ceramic figurines from Europe (Vela Spila, Croatia)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Farbstein, Rebecca ^a   Radić, Dinko ^b   Brajković, Dejana ^c   Miracle, Preston T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre of Culture Archaeological Collection   (Croatia)

^c CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ART; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CERAMICS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EUROPE; EXPERIMENTATION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; MATERIALS TESTING; PALEOLITHIC; PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CERAMICS; CROATIA; CULTURE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS;

EID: 84864256039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041437     Document Type: Article

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