Recycling bones in the middle pleistocene: Some reflections from gran dolina TD10-1 (Spain), bolomor cave (Spain) and qesem cave (Israel)

Quaternary International

Volumn 361, Issue , 2015, Pages 297-312

  Rosell, Jordi ^a,b   Blasco, Ruth ^c   Fernández Peris, Josep ^d   Carbonell, Eudald ^a,b,e   Barkai, Ran ^f   Gopher, Avi ^f  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

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

^c Gibraltar Museum   (Gibraltar)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^f TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bone retouchers; Bone tools; Iberian peninsula; Middle pleistocene; Near east; Recycling

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; BONE; PLEISTOCENE; RECYCLING; TOOL USE;

BOLOMOR CAVE; BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; CENTRAL DISTRICT; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; GRAN DOLINA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; ISRAEL; QESEM CAVE; SPAIN; VALENCIA [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA];

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84923348945     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.08.009     Document Type: Article

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