The Upper Paleolithic revolution

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 31, Issue , 2002, Pages 363-393

  Bar Yosef, Ofer ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Middle Paleolithic; Modern humans

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; PALEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 1542309139     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.31.040402.085416     Document Type: Article

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