New evidence for the mousterian and gravettian at Rio Secco Cave, Italy

Journal of Field Archaeology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 401-416

  Peresani, Marco ^a   Romandini, Matteo ^a   Duches, Rossella ^a   Jéquier, Camille ^a   Nannini, Nicola ^a   Pastoors, Andreas ^b   Picin, Andrea ^b   Schmidt, Isabell ^b   Vaquero, Manuel ^c   Weniger, Gerd Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b Neanderthal Museum   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cave bears; Gravettian; Lithics; Mousterian; Neanderthal demise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912046281     PISSN: 00934690     EISSN: 20424582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/0093469014Z.00000000098     Document Type: Article

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