Age and date for early arrival of the Acheulian in Europe (Barranc de la Boella, la Canonja, Spain)

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Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Vallverdú, Josep ^a,b,d   Saladié, Palmira ^a,b,c   Rosas, Antonio ^d   Huguet, Rosa ^a,b,d   Cáceres, Isabel ^a,b   Mosquera, Marina ^a,b   Garcia Tabernero, Antonio ^d   Estalrrich, Almudena ^d   Lozano Fernández, Iván ^a,b   Pineda Alcalá, Antonio ^a,b   Carrancho, Ángel ^e   Villalaín, Juan José ^e   Bourlès, Didier ^f   Braucher, Régis ^f   Lebatard, Anne ^f   Vilalta, Jaume ^a   Esteban Nadal, Montserrat ^a,b   Bennàsar, Maria Lluc ^a   Bastir, Marcus ^d   López Polín, Lucía ^a,b   Ollé, Andreu ^a,b   Vergés, Josep Maria ^a,b   Ros Montoya, Sergio ^g   Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido ^a,b,h   García, Ana ^a   Martinell, Jordi ⁱ   Expósito, Isabel ^a,b   Burjachs, Francesc ^a,b,h   Agustí, Jordi ^a,b,h   Carbonell, Eudald ^a,b,d,j   more..

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

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^g Museo de Prehistoria y Paleontologia   (Spain)

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

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^j INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHEULIAN INDUSTRY; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LOWER PLEISTOCENE; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; PALEOLITHIC; POPULATION DISPERSION; SPAIN; TAXONOMY; TOOL USE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; CARNIVORY; FOSSIL; HOMINID;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CARNIVORY; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; SPAIN;

EID: 84904968828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103634     Document Type: Article

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