Analysis of site formation and assemblage integrity does not support attribution of the Uluzzian to modern humans at Grotta del Cavallo

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Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Zilhão, João ^a,b   Banks, William E ^c,d   D'Errico, Francesco ^c,e   Gioia, Patrizia ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; ASSEMBLAGE INTEGRITY; AURIGNACIAN LITHICS; DECIDUOUS MOLAR; EARLY EPIGRAVETTIAN LITHICS; EARLY UPPER PALEOLITHIC; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; ITALY; MOLAR TOOTH; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOLITHIC; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PROTOAURIGNACIAN LITHICS; PUBLICATION; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SITE FORMATION ANALYSIS; STONE AGE; ULUZZIAN; UNCERTAINTY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; DECIDUOUS TOOTH; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; MANDIBLE;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; ITALY; MANDIBLE; MOLAR; NEANDERTHALS; RADIOMETRIC DATING; TOOTH, DECIDUOUS;

EID: 84940456352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131181     Document Type: Article

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