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The management of space in a Palaeolithic rock shelter: defining activity areas by spatial analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Pascale Yvorra
Pascale Yvorra*
Affiliation:
UMR 6636 Economie Société Environnement Préhistorique CNRS, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme, Aix en Provence, France
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Abstract

Flints scattered in the earliest stratum of Mandrin, a rock shelter in the Rhône valley, were clustered by k-means and Principal Component Analysis to reveal areas dominated by particular tools or waste products. These areas suggest the way in which Palaeolithic people managed their domestic space.

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Middle PalaeolithicFrancelithicsspatial analysis
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Antiquity , Volume 77 , Issue 296 , June 2003 , pp. 336 - 344
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2003

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