The Middle Stone Age of the northern Kenyan Rift: age and context of new archaeological sites from the Kapedo Tuffs

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 652-664

  Tryon, Christian A ^a   Roach, Neil T ^b   Logan, M Amelia V ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lithic technology; Middle Late Pleistocene; Regional variation; Silali; Tephrostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; MESOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; RIFT ZONE; SKELETAL REMAINS; TUFF;

AFRICA; BARINGO; EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; ETHIOPIA; KENYA; KENYA RIFT; RIFT VALLEY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TURKANA;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 51349104777     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.03.008     Document Type: Article

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