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The earliest colonization of Europe: the short chronology revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robin Dennell  and
Wil Roebroeks
Robin Dennell
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology & Prehistory, Northgate House, West Street, Sheffield S1 4ET, England E-mail: r.dennell@Sheffield.ac.uk
Wil Roebroeks
Affiliation:
Faculty of Pre- & Protohistory, Leiden University, PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands E-mail: w.roebroeks@rulpre.LeidenUniv.nl
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Long-running discussions about when Europe was first colonized have recently been fuelled by new discoveries from the Iberian peninsula, which reports hominid occupation by 800,000, or even by 1.8 million years ago. The proceedings of the important Tautavel workshop (1993), published as The earliest occupation of Europe (Roebroeks & van Kolfschoten (ed.) 1995), are now central. This new assessment takes forward ANTIQUITY'S notice by Roebroeks & van Kolfschoten of 1994 (68: 489–503).

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 269 , September 1996 , pp. 535 - 542
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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