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Blind in a cloud of data: problems with the chronology of Neanderthal extinction and anatomically modern human expansion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

P. B. Pettitt  and
A. W. G. Pike
P. B. Pettitt
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England.
A. W. G. Pike
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England.
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Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 288 , June 2001 , pp. 415 - 417
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