Lithic assemblages from the Chang Tang region, Northern Tibet

Antiquity

Volumn 75, Issue 288, 2001, Pages 319-327

  Brantingham, P Jeffrey ^a   Olsen, John W ^b   Schaller, George B ^c  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blade technology; Foraging adaptations; Late Pleistocene; Microblade technology; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; HUNTER-GATHERER; PLEISTOCENE;

CHINA; TIBET;

EID: 0034761242     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X0006097X     Document Type: Article

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