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Maximum ages of the Côa valley (Portugal) engravings measured with Chlorine-36

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Fred M. Phillips ,
Montgomery Flinsch ,
David Elmore  and
Pankaj Sharma
Fred M. Phillips
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM 87801, USA. E-mail: phillips@nmt.edu
Montgomery Flinsch
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM 87801, USA. E-mail: phillips@nmt.edu
David Elmore
Affiliation:
Prime Laboratory, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN 47097, USA
Pankaj Sharma
Affiliation:
Prime Laboratory, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN 47097, USA
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Panel faces in teh Côa valley, Portugal, were available for engraving during the Upper Palaeolithic, according to 36Cl exposure ages of 16,000 to 136,000 years.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 271 , March 1997 , pp. 100 - 104
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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