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The earliest colonization of Europe

The Short Chronology Revisited

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ID7658926
AuthorsRobin Dennell (0000-0002-4150-0568, corresponding author), Wil Roebroeks (0000-0002-5075-6899, Leiden University)
Year1996
Volume70
Issue269
Pages535-542
Publication date1996-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00083691
OpenAlexW2472391942
LanguageEN
Citations received79
References cited21

Long-running discussions about when Europe was first colonized have recently been fuelled by new discoveries from the Iberian peninsula, which reports hominid occupation by 800,000, or even by 1.8 million years ago. The proceedings of the important Tautavel workshop (1993), published as The earliest occupation of Europe (Roebroeks & van Kolfschoten (ed.) 1995), are now central. This new assessment takes forward ANTIQUITY'S notice by Roebroeks & van Kolfschoten of 1994 (68: 489–503

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