Dating the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Levant: A view from Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 585-593

  Valladas, Hélène ^a   Mercier, Norbert ^b   Hershkovitz, Israel ^c   Zaidner, Yossi ^d   Tsatskin, Alexander ^d   Yeshurun, Reuven ^d   Vialettes, Laurence ^a   Joron, Jean Louis ^e   Reyss, Jean Louis ^a   Weinstein Evron, Mina ^d  

^a DIF   (France)

^b Appliquée à l'Archéologie ^*  (France)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^e CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Early Middle Paleolithic; Human migration; Middle East; Thermoluminescence (TL) dating

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PALEOLITHIC; POPULATION MIGRATION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

HAIFA [ISRAEL]; ISRAEL; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MOUNT CARMEL;

ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; EARLY MIDDLE PALEOLITHIC; FOSSIL; HOMINID; ISRAEL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRATION; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RADIOMETRIC DATING; TECHNOLOGY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE (TL) DATING;

EARLY MIDDLE PALEOLITHIC; HUMAN MIGRATION; MIDDLE EAST; THERMOLUMINESCENCE (TL) DATING;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; ISRAEL; PALEONTOLOGY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84885373123     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.07.005     Document Type: Article

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