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Holocene humans at Pontnewydd and Cae Gronw caves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stephen Aldhouse-Green ,
Paul Pettitt  and
Christopher Stringer
Stephen Aldhouse-Green
Affiliation:
Department of History & Archaeology, University of Wales College, Newport, Caerleon Campus, PO Box 179, Newport NP6 1YG, Wales
Paul Pettitt
Affiliation:
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England
Christopher Stringer
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England
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Abstract

Pontnewydd, in north Wales, is known as a rare Middle Pleistocene site in northern Europe with human remains. Radiocarbon AMS dates identify human specimens, deriving from later use of the cave at Pontnewydd and its neighbour Cae Gronw, that have no part in its earlier story.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 268 , June 1996 , pp. 444 - 447
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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