The use of fire at Zhoukoudian: evidence from magnetic susceptibility and color measurements

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1013-1020

  Zhang, Yan ^a,b   Guo, Zhengtang ^a   Deng, Chenglong ^a   Zhang, Shuangquan ^a   Wu, Haibin ^a   Zhang, Chunxia ^a   Ge, Junyi ^a   Zhao, Deai ^c   Li, Qin ^a,b   Song, Yang ^a,b   Zhu, Rixiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Magnetic susceptibility; Redness; Rock magnetism; Use of fire; Zhoukoudian

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943359947     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-0111-7     Document Type: Article

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