Revisiting the chronology of the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian in Europe: A reply to Higham etal.'s comments on Banks etal. (2013)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 810-817

  Banks, William E ^a,b   d'Errico, Francesco ^a,c   Zilhão, João ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHRONOLOGY; CULTURAL RELATIONS; HOMINID; PALEOLITHIC;

EUROPE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; FOSSIL; HUMAN;

CLIMATE; FOSSILS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84887611005     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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