First and foremost we would like to
thank Mme. Bordes for her support and encouragement of this project. We would also
like to acknowledge and thank the following individuals for their help: Alain Rousseau
(Museé d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France), Dominique Armand (Instituté du Quarternaire,
Talence, France), Larry Bartram (Thinking Strings), Marie Soressi (Université de
Bordeaux I, Talence, France), and Roland Nespoulet (Museé de l'Abri Pataud, Les Eyzies,
France). And we would like to give a very special thanks to all the many individuals
who have helped enter ten of thousands of lines of data, digitize, crop and clean
thousands of artifact photos, analyze ten of thousands of stone tools, wash and label
thousands of artifacts, and scan thousands of notebook pages. Without your help this
project would not have been possible.
A major portion of the work to date has been supported by the Leakey Foundation, with
additional funding from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology and the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation.
The 2000-2003 excavation seasons were supported by NSF grant #0073856. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed
in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
This project is dedicated to the memory of François Bordes. |
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