Ornaments reveal resistance of North European cultures to the spread of farming

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Rigaud, Solange ^a,b   D'Errico, Francesco ^c,d   Vanhaeren, Marian ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; CENTRAL EUROPE; CLOTHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; EUROPE; GENE FLOW; GENERAL DEVICE; GEOGRAPHY; MESOLITHIC; NEOLITHIC; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPEAN; PERSONAL ORNAMENT; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STRATIGRAPHY; TREND STUDY; AGRICULTURE; ARCHEOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN;

AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTURE; EUROPE; GENE FLOW; HISTORY; HUMANS;

EID: 84928902454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121166     Document Type: Article

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