A rock engraving made by Neanderthals in Gibraltar

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 37, 2014, Pages 13301-13306

  Rodríguez Vidal, Joaquín ^a   D'Errico, Francesco ^b,c   Pacheco, Francisco Giles ^d   Blasco, Ruth ^d   Rosell, Jordi ^e,f   Jennings, Richard P ^g   Queffelec, Alain ^b   Finlayson, Geraldine ^d   Fa, Darren A ^d   López, José María Gutiérrez ^h   Carrión, José S ⁱ   Negro, Juan José ^j   Finlayson, Stewart ^d   Cáceres, Luís M ^a   Bernal, Marco A ^g   Jiménez, Santiago Fernández ⁱ   Finlayson, Clive ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d Gibraltar Museum   (Gibraltar)

^e UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

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

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h Museo Histórico Municipal de Villamartín   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^j DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Art; Cognition; Iberia; Middle Paleolithic; Symbolism

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CAVE; GIBRALTAR; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; PRINTING; SEDIMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; CAVES; ENGRAVING AND ENGRAVINGS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GIBRALTAR; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEANDERTHALS; WEATHER;

EID: 84907292008     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1411529111     Document Type: Article

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