The campanian ignimbrite factor: Towards a reappraisal of the middle to upper palaeolithic ‘transition’

Living Under the Shadow: Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 19-41

  Fedele, Francesco G ^a   Giaccio, Biagio ^b   Isaia, Roberto ^c   Orsi, Giovanni ^c   Carroll, Michael ^d   Scaillet, Bruno ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^e UMR 7327   (France)

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