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Title The cave of Fontéchevade : recent excavations and their paleoanthropological implications / [edited by] Philip G. Chase [and others].

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages) : illustrations, maps
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index.
Summary "This book provides a summary of the discoveries made during the course of excavations at the Paleolithic cave site of Fontechevade, France, between 1994 and 1998. The excavation team used modern field and analytic methods to address major problems raised by earlier excavations at the site from 1937 to 1954. These earlier excavations produced two sets of data that have been problematic in light of data from other European Paleolithic sites: first, the Lower Paleolithic stone tool industry, the Tayacian, that differs in fundamental ways from other contemporary industries and, second, the human skull fragment that has been interpreted as modern in nature but that apparently dates from the last interglacial, long before there is any evidence for modern humans from any other site in Europe. By applying modern stratigraphic, lithic, faunal, geological, geophysical, and radiometric analyses, the interdisciplinary team demonstrates that the Tayacian "industry" is a product of site-formation processes and that the actual age of the Fontechevade I fossil is compatible with other evidence for the arrival of modern humans in Europe."--Jacket.
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Subject Antiquities, Prehistoric -- France -- Fontéchevade Cave.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
France -- Fontéchevade Cave.
Stone age -- France -- Fontéchevade Cave.
Stone age.
Human remains (Archaeology) -- France -- Fontéchevade Cave.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Tools, Prehistoric -- France -- Fontéchevade Cave.
Tools, Prehistoric.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- France -- Fontéchevade Cave.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Fontéchevade Cave (France)
France -- Antiquities.
France.
Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Chase, Philip G.
Other Form: Print version: Cave of Fontéchevade. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2008005649
ISBN 9780521898447 (hardback)
0521898447 (hardback)
0511464789 (electronic book)
9780511464782 (electronic book)
9780511465529 (electronic book)
0511465521 (electronic book)
9780511575518 (ebook)
0511575513 (ebook)
1281982946
9781281982940
Standard No. 9786611982942
Report No. MYILIB_CUp