The role of cryptotephra in refining the chronology of Late Pleistocene human evolution and cultural change in North Africa

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 118, Issue , 2015, Pages 151-169

  Barton, R N E ^a   Lane, C S ^b,c   Albert, P G ^c,d   White, D ^e   Collcutt, S N ^f   Bouzouggar, A ^g,h   Ditchfield, P ^c   Farr, L ⁱ   Oh, A ^c,j   Ottolini, L ^k   Smith, V C ^c   Van Peer, P ^l   Kindermann, K ^m  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f Oxford Archaeological Associates Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^g Rabat Institutes   (Morocco)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^k CNR   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^m UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Campanian Ignimbrite (CI); Homo sapiens; Iberomaurusian; Later Stone Age (LSA); Middle Palaeolithic (MP); Middle Stone Age (MSA); Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

VOLCANOES;

CAMPANIAN IGNIMBRITE; HOMO SAPIENS; IBEROMAURUSIAN; MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC (MP); STONE AGE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

BIODIVERSITY;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; CULTURAL HISTORY; GEOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MESOLITHIC; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EGYPT; MOROCCO;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84937880514     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.09.008     Document Type: Article

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