Blind in a cloud of data: Problems with the chronology of Neanderthal extinction and anatomically modern human expansion

Antiquity

Volumn 75, Issue 288, 2001, Pages 415-417

  Pettitt, P B ^a   Pike, A W G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85011523951     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 17451531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X0006107X     Document Type: Article

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