Manganese coating of the Tabun faunal assemblage: Implications for modern human behaviour in the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic

Quaternary International

Volumn 330, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-18

  Marín Arroyo, Ana B ^a   Landete Ruiz, M Dolores ^b   Seva Román, Romualdo ^b   Lewis, Mark D ^c  

^a INSTITUTO INTERNACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES PREHISTÓRICAS DE CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MANGANESE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

HAIFA [ISRAEL]; ISRAEL; TABUN CAVE;

EID: 84898786743     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.016     Document Type: Article

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