Soanian cores and core-tools from Toka, Northern India: Towards a new typo-technological organization

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 412-441

  Chauhan, Parth R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chopper typology; Core tools; Cores; Northern India; Paleolithic; Qualitative attributes; Siwalik Hills; Soanian; Typo technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548035628     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: 10902686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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