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Étude paléoenvironnementale des sédiments quaternaires du Guelb er Richât (Adrar de Mauritanie) en regard des sites voisins ou associés du Paléolithique inférieur. Discussion et perspectives

Pierre Giresse, Ousmane Sao, Henry de Lumley, 2012. L'Anthropologie 116(1): 12-38.

Sedimentology, eleven AMS radiocarbon dates on shells and calcite cements (about 15,000 to 7,730 BP) and palaeomagnetism of the torrential alluvium in the Richat's outer ring; reads the large tools as made locally, concentrated by wind deflation and preserved by calcite cement.

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Cited for the eleven radiocarbon dates on the outer-ring alluvium (about 15,000 to 7,730 BP), the palaeomagnetic limit, and the reading of the tools as local and concentrated by wind.

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Giresse, P., Sao, O., & de Lumley, H. (2012). Étude paléoenvironnementale des sédiments quaternaires du Guelb er Richât (Adrar de Mauritanie) en regard des sites voisins ou associés du Paléolithique inférieur. Discussion et perspectives. L'Anthropologie, 116(1), 12-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2011.12.001
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