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| Description | Documents relating to a trip to Italy undertaken by T Molleson, for the completion of two pieces of research in Northern Italy concerning the Castenedolo skulls and neanderthal footprints
‘Report on the visit to Northern Italy to collect bone samples for analysis and dating. April 4-11th April 1966’
Andrea Nervi; Pr L Pales, Musee de l’Homme; C Emiliani and J N Rosholt, Geological Survey, relating to the dating of stalagmites from Grotta della Basura
Chiappella, Signorina relating to samples of bear bone from excavations at Tana del Basua
Cleto Coviain, Universita Di Padova, relating to powder bone samples from the Musterian deposit
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