Magnetostratigraphy and cosmogenic dating of Wonderwerk Cave: New constraints for the chronology of the South African Earlier Stone Age
@article{Shaar2021MagnetostratigraphyAC, title={Magnetostratigraphy and cosmogenic dating of Wonderwerk Cave: New constraints for the chronology of the South African Earlier Stone Age}, author={Ron Shaar and Ari Matmon and Liora Kolska Horwitz and Yael Ebert and Michael Chazan and M. Arnold and Georges Auma{\^i}tre and Didier L. Bourl{\`e}s and K. Keddadouche}, journal={Quaternary Science Reviews}, year={2021}, volume={259}, pages={106907} }
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