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Selection and Use of Manganese Dioxide by Neanderthals

Several Mousterian sites in France have yielded large numbers of small black blocs. The usual interpretation is that these ‘manganese oxides’ were collected for their colouring properties and used in body decoration, potentially for symbolic expression. Neanderthals habitually used fire and if they...

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Autores principales: Heyes, Peter J., Anastasakis, Konstantinos, de Jong, Wiebren, van Hoesel, Annelies, Roebroeks, Wil, Soressi, Marie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4770591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26922901
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep22159