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0.07
C14; ESR; OIS;
ESR dating of bovid tooth from Neanderthal layer gives dates of 55 ± 2 ka to 61 ± 5 ka.BLACKWELL B. A. & MONTOYA A. C. (2007 October). ESR dating bovid teeth from the Neanderthal layer at La Ferrassie France. In 2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting.
 neanderthalensis;
Homo neanderthalensis
;burial mortuary; fire (any evidence); fire hearths (uncontroversial evidence of fire); mortuary activity
Dordogne Valley
Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries Katerina Harvati Handbook of Paleoanthropology (2007); Coordinates FROM NESPOS
Homo neanderthalensis
Clark G. & Riel-Salvatore J. (2001). Grave markers middle and early upper paleolithic burials. Current Anthropology 42(4) 481-90; Wood Bernard. Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of human evolution. Oxford [etc.: Wiley-Blackwell 2011.