Spatial organization of the Gravettian mammoth hunters' site at Kraków Spadzista (southern Poland)

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3627-3642

  Wilczyński, Jarosław ^a   Wojtal, Piotr ^a   Sobczyk, Krzysztof ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gravettian; Radiocarbon dating; Upper Palaeolithic; Vistulian; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; FLINT; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HUNTER-GATHERER; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MAMMOTH; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SKELETAL REMAINS; VISTULIAN; ZOOLOGY;

POLAND;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84864970406     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.05.012     Document Type: Article

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