Raw material quality and prepared core technologies in Northeast Asia

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 255-271

  Brantingham, P Jeffrey ^a   Olsen, John W ^a   Rech, Jason A ^b   Krivoshapkin, Andrei I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Archaeology; China; Middle paleolithic; Mongolia; Raw material quality; Technological design

Indexed keywords

LITHIC FRAGMENT; PALEOLITHIC; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 0034051096     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jasc.1999.0456     Document Type: Article

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