Holocene wood charcoal from el mirón cave vegetation and wood use

El Mirón Cave, Cantabrian Spain: The Site and its Holocene Archaeological Record

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 174-196

  Zapata, Lydia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

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