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SUBMITTER: White R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3365179 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
White Randall R Mensan Romain R Bourrillon Raphaëlle R Cretin Catherine C Higham Thomas F G TF Clark Amy E AE Sisk Matthew L ML Tartar Elise E Gardère Philippe P Goldberg Paul P Pelegrin Jacques J Valladas Hélène H Tisnérat-Laborde Nadine N de Sanoit Jacques J Chambellan Dominique D Chiotti Laurent L
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120514 22
We report here on the 2007 discovery, in perfect archaeological context, of part of the engraved and ocre-stained undersurface of the collapsed rockshelter ceiling from Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France. The decorated surface of the 1.5-t roof-collapse block was in direct contact with the exposed archaeological surface onto which it fell. Because there was no sedimentation between the engraved surface and the archaeological layer upon which it collapsed, it is clear that the Early Aurignacian occu ...[more]