What happens around a fire: Faunal processing sequences and spatial distribution at Qesem Cave (300 ka), Israel

Quaternary International

Volumn 398, Issue , 2016, Pages 190-209

  Blasco, Ruth ^a   Rosell, Jordi ^b,c   Sañudo, Pablo ^b   Gopher, Avi ^d   Barkai, Ran ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

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

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acheulo Yabrudian Cultural Complex (AYCC); Hearth; Levant; Middle Pleistocene; Qesem Cave; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; FIRE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HUMAN EVOLUTION; HUNTING; PLEISTOCENE; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CENTRAL DISTRICT; ISRAEL; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; QESEM CAVE;

DAMA; DAMA DAMA; DAMA MESOPOTAMICA;

EID: 84929440109     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.04.031     Document Type: Article

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