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Radiocarbon-accelerator dating of Ksar 'Aqil (Lebanon) and the chronology of the Upper Palaeolithic sequence in the Middle East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Paul Mellars  and
Jacques Tixier
Paul Mellars
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ
Jacques Tixier
Affiliation:
C.N.R.S. (Préhistoire et Technologie), 1 Place Aristide-Briand, 92190 Meudon, France
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Abstract

The old importance of the eastern coastal region of the Mediterranean for the later Palaeolithic has been recently reinforced by remarkably early TL dates for modern hominids there. This important series of dates for the early Upper Palaeolithic at a Lebanese site adds to the story.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 241 , December 1989 , pp. 761 - 768
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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