A second life: Recycling production waste during the Middle Palaeolithic in layer L at Grotta del Cavallo (Lecce, Southeast Italy)

Quaternary International

Volumn 361, Issue , 2015, Pages 200-211

  Romagnoli, Francesca ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Museo Fiorentino di Preistoria Paolo Graziosi   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lithic tools; Neanderthal; Raw material provisioning; Scavenging; Techno cultural variability; Time cost model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923608117     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.07.033     Document Type: Article

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