Hominin multiple occupations in the Early and Middle Pleistocene sequence of Vallparadís (Barcelona, Spain)

Quaternary International

Volumn 316, Issue , 2013, Pages 115-122

  Martínez, Kenneth ^a,b   Garcia, Joan ^a,b   Carbonell, Eudald ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; HOMINID; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LITHIC FRAGMENT; PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84887411285     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.10.021     Document Type: Article

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