A new view from la Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey

Antiquity

Volumn 88, Issue 339, 2014, Pages 13-29

  Scott, Beccy ^a   Bates, Martin ^b   Bates, Richard ^c   Conneller, Chantal ^d   Pope, Matt ^e   Shaw, Andrew ^f   Smith, Geoff ^g  

^a BRITISH MUSEUM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^g Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for the Evolution of Hominin Behaviour   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bathymetric survey; Channel Islands; Jersey; Mammoth hunting; Mass kill; Middle Palaeolithic; Neanderthal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897622413     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00050195     Document Type: Article

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