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European Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transitional Industries: Châtelperronian

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  1. Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives, Centre Archéologique d’Orléans, 525, avenue de la Pomme-de-Pin, F-45590, Saint–Cyr–en–Val, France

    Marie Soressi

  2. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Marie Soressi & Morgan Roussel

  3. CNRS, UMR7041– ArsScan/AnTet, MAE, 21 allée de l’Université, F-92023, Nanterre, France

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Soressi, M., Roussel, M. (2014). European Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transitional Industries: Châtelperronian. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1852

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