A critical assessment of the Protoaurignacian lithic technology at Fumane Cave and its implications for the definition of the earliest Aurignacian

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Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2017, Pages

  Falcucci, Armando ^a   Conard, Nicholas J ^a,b   Peresani, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoecology   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; ITALY; ANIMAL; FRANCE; GEOLOGY; HISTORY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS;

ANIMALS; FRANCE; GEOLOGY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ITALY; NEANDERTHALS;

EID: 85037339653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189241     Document Type: Article

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