Homo erectus in East and Southeast Asia, and the questions of the age of the species and its association with stone artifacts, with special attention to handaxe-like tools

Quaternary International

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 141-151

  Corvinus, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; TOOL USE;

ASIA; EURASIA;

HOMO ERECTUS;

EID: 1042290107     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-6182(03)00124-1     Document Type: Article

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