Palaeolithic landscape of extraction: Flint surface quarries and workshops at Mt Pua, Israel

Antiquity

Volumn 76, Issue 293, 2002, Pages 672-680

  Barkai, Ran ^a   Gopher, Avi ^a   La Porta, Philip C ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Flint extraction; Handaxes; Levallois technique; Lower Middle Palaeolithic; Workshops

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041777917     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00091110     Document Type: Article

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