Experiments around the fire. discovering human and natural processes in middle paleolithic hearths

Anthropologie (Czech Republic)

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 501-518

  Nieto Márquez, Irene Ortiz ^a   Preysler, Javier Baena ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

GIS; Hearth; Middle paleolithic; Refits; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973664479     PISSN: 03231119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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