An Ochered Fossil Marine Shell From the Mousterian of Fumane Cave, Italy

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Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Peresani, Marco ^a   Vanhaeren, Marian ^b   Quaggiotto, Ermanno ^c   Queffelec, Alain ^b   d'Errico, Francesco ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c Naturalistic Archaeological Museum of Vicenza   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL SHELL; ARTICLE; ASPA MARGINATA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; ITALY; MARINE SNAIL; MIOCENE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PLIOCENE;

ANIMAL SHELLS; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CAVES; FOSSILS; GASTROPODA; ITALY;

DISCOIDAE;

EID: 84880004773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068572     Document Type: Article

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