Survey in the western high desert of Egypt near Abydos, Middle Egypt. The lithic technologies;Prospections sur les plateaux désertiques du désert libyque égyptien (Abydos, Moyenne Égypte). Quelques exemples de technologies lithiques

Anthropologie

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 341-355

  Chiotti, Laurent ^a   L Dibble, Harold ^b   P McPherron, Shannon ^c   I Olszewski, Deborah ^b   A Schurmans, Utsav ^b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Egypt; Levallois technique; Middle paleolithic; Nubian; Refits; Upper paleolithic

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; DESERT; FLINT; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LITHOLOGY; PALEOLITHIC; TAPHONOMY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 67649479372     PISSN: 00035521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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