Lower Pleistocene hominids and artifacts from Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain)

E Carbonell1, J M Bermúdez de Castro, J L Arsuaga

  • 1Laboratori d'Arqueologia, Universitat Rovira i Virgii, Imperial Tarraco, Tarragona, Spain.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 11, 1995
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