Statistical and archaeological errors invalidate the proposed chronology for the site of Ksar Akil

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 51, 2015, Pages E7034-

  Douka, Katerina ^a   Higham, Thomas F G ^a   Bergman, Christopher A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b AECOM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; CHRONOLOGY; FOSSIL; HUMAN; LETTER; PALEOLITHIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY; VALIDITY; MIGRATION;

HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84952684844     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1519746112     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. Bosch MD, et al. (2015) New chronology for Ksâr 'Akil (Lebanon) supports Levantine route of modern human dispersal into Europe. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 112(25):7683-7688.
2. Douka K, Bergman CA, Hedges REM, Wesselingh FP, Higham TFG (2013) Chronology of Ksar Akil (Lebanon) and implications for the colonization of Europe by anatomically modern humans. PLoS One 8(9):e72931.