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Approximate age:50,900 years old=average of minimum (0.0418 Ma) and maximum (0.06 Ma)
Date based on: radiocarbon See map of sites with similar ages
Dating reference: Pettitt, P. B., & Bailey, R. M. (2000). AMS Radiocarbon and Luminescence Dating of Gorham's and Vanguard Caves, Gibraltar, and Implications for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Iberia.
Hominids:
Archaeology:Middle Stone Age (MSA)/Mousterian
Important specimens: Middle paleolithic tools, marine resource exploitation
Notes: Dating is not really precise. The only established date in the upper one.
Location: southern face of Rock, Gibralter
Map location/coordinates reference: Stringer, C. B., Finlayson, J. C., Barton, R. N. E., Fern·ndez-Jalvo, Y., C·ceres, I., Sabin, R. C., et al. (2008). Neanderthal exploitation of marine mammals in Gibraltar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(38), 14319.
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