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Mousterian fires from Grotte XVI (Dordogne, France)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jean-Philippe Rigaud ,
Jan F. Simek  and
Thierry Ge
Jean-Philippe Rigaud
Affiliation:
Institut du Quaternaire, Université Bordeaux I, Talence, France
Jan F. Simek
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996-0720, USA
Thierry Ge
Affiliation:
URA 28 de CNRS, Meudon, France
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Abstract

A new study from the Dordogne decisively identifies and confirms the use of fires in a Mousterian context; and the thick ashy deposit, identified as the remains of burnt lichen, clarifies the real nature of those distinctive deposits, known from other sites of the era.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 266 , December 1995 , pp. 902 - 912
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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