New luminescence ages for the Galería Complex archaeological site: Resolving chronological uncertainties on the Acheulean record of the Sierra de Atapuerca, Northern Spain

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Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Demuro, Martina ^a,b   Arnold, Lee J ^a,b   Parés, Josep M ^b   Pérez González, Alfredo ^b   Ortega, Ana I ^b   Arsuaga, Juan L ^c,d   Bermúdez De Castro, José M ^b   Carbonell, Eudald ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; FOSSIL HOMININ; LUMINESCENCE; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POST INFRARED INFRARED STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEDIMENT; SPAIN; THERMALLY TRANSFERRED OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; ANALYSIS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; DEVICES; FOSSIL; HERBIVORY; HOMINID; HUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HERBIVORY; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; PALEONTOLOGY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SPAIN; TOOTH;

EID: 84908287787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110169     Document Type: Article

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