120-150 ka human tooth and ivory engravings from Xinglongdong Cave, Three Gorges Region, South China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 175-180

  Gao, Xing ^a   Huang, Wanbo ^a,b   Xu, Ziqiang ^b   Ma, Zhibang ^c   Olsen, J W ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b Longgupo Institute of Paleoanthropology   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Homo sapiens; Ivory engraving; Late Middle Pleistocene; Primeval art; Xinglongdong Cave

Indexed keywords

BROSME BROSME; HOMO SAPIENS; MAMMALIA; STEGODON;

EID: 33748929979     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03wd0214     Document Type: Article

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