Reassessing the Aurignacian of Slovenia: Techno-economic behaviour and direct dating of osseous projectile points

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 78, Issue , 2015, Pages 158-180

  Moreau, Luc ^a   Odar, Boštjan ^b   Higham, Tom ^c   Horvat, Aleksander ^d   Pirkmajer, Darja ^e   Turk, Peter ^f  

^a Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for the Evolution of Hominin Behaviour   (Germany)

^b University of Oxford ^*  (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d ANTON MELIK GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^e Pokrajinskij muzej Celje   (Slovenia)

^f Narodni Muzej Slovenije   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

AMS dating; Lithic technology; Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition; Organic points; Raw material economy; Southern Central Europe

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; DATING METHOD; HISTORICAL RECORD; INDUSTRIAL HISTORY; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MATERIAL CULTURE; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOLITHIC;

CENTRAL EUROPE; SLOVENIA;

ARCHEOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVICES; FOSSIL; HUMAN; SEDIMENT; SLOVENIA; TECHNOLOGY;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTURE; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; SLOVENIA; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84919843538     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.09.007     Document Type: Article

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