FxJj43: A Window into a 1.5-Million-Year-Old Palaeolandscape in the Okote Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Northern Kenya

Geoarchaeology - An International Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 349-392

  Stern, Nicola ^a   Porch, Nicholas ^b   McDougall, Ian ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; EXCAVATION; FLOODPLAIN; LANDFORM; OUTCROP; PLEISTOCENE; VOLCANIC ASH; WESTERLY;

KENYA; KOOBI FORA; TURKANA;

EID: 0347371866     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.10018     Document Type: Article

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