Evidence for habitual use of fire at the end of the Lower Paleolithic: Site-formation processes at Qesem Cave, Israel

2007/06/19 by P KARKANAS, Panagiotis Karkanas, Ruth Shahack‐Gross +13 · 334 citations
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Calcite #Cave #Clastic rock #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Geochemistry #Geology #Middle Paleolithic #Paleontology #Pleistocene #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Sedimentary rock #Taphonomy #Upper Paleolithic

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.04.002

published in Journal of Human Evolution 53(2), 197-212 (Elsevier BV)

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