Temporal frameworks to approach human behavior concealed in Middle Palaeolithic palimpsests: A high-resolution example from El Salt Stratigraphic Unit X (Alicante, Spain)

Quaternary International

Volumn 417, Issue , 2016, Pages 66-81

  Machado, Jorge ^a   Pérez, Leopoldo ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

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

^c UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Archaeostratigraphy; Assemblage formation; El Salt; Middle Palaeolithic; Neanderthals; Palimpsests

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOLITHIC;

ALICANTE [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA]; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84950241394     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.050     Document Type: Article

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