An Aurignacian point from Uphill Quarry (Somerset) and the earliest settlement of Britain by Homo sapiens sapiens

Antiquity

Volumn 74, Issue 285, 2000, Pages 513-518

  Jacobi, R M ^a   Pettitt, P B ^b  

^a BRITISH MUSEUM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMS dating; Aurignacian; Somerset; Uphill

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011496745     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 17451530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00059858     Document Type: Note

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