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Dating of the Upper Pleistocene Lithic Industry of Sardinia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

G Klein Hofmeijer
Affiliation:
* Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, PO Box 80.021, 3408 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
C Alderliesten
Affiliation:
**Robert J Van de Graaff laboratorium, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, PO Box 80.000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
K Van Der Borg
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**Robert J Van de Graaff laboratorium, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, PO Box 80.000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
C M Houston
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**Robert J Van de Graaff laboratorium, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, PO Box 80.000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
A F M de Jong
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**Robert J Van de Graaff laboratorium, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, PO Box 80.000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
Fabio Martini
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†Dipartimento di Archeologia c Storia delle arte sezione di Preistoria, Universitá Siena, Siena, Italy
Mario Sanges
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$$Soprintendenza Archeologica di Sassari e Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
P Y Sondaar
Affiliation:
* Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, PO Box 80.021, 3408 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
J A de Visser
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* Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, PO Box 80.021, 3408 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
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During an excavation of 1986 and 1987, a joint team from Utrecht, Siena and the Soprintendenza di Sassari e Nuoro, found a pre-Neolithic lithic industry in Corbeddu Cave, Oliena, Sardinia, which was dated to 8000–17,000 bp. The artifact typology is different from that of the mainland of the same period. The lithic and bone artifacts suggest an endemic isolated economy of the Upper Pleistocene in Sardinia.

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