The oldest and longest enduring microlithic sequence in India: 35 000 years of modern human occupation and change at the Jwalapuram Locality 9 rockshelter

Antiquity

Volumn 83, Issue 320, 2009, Pages 326-348

  Clarkson, Chris ^a   Petraglia, Michael ^b   Korisettar, Ravi ^c   Haslam, Michael ^b   Boivin, Nicole ^d   Crowther, Alison ^e   Ditchfield, Peter ^d   Fuller, Dorian ^f   Miracle, Preston ^b   Harris, Clair ^a   Connell, Kate ^a   James, Hannah ^b   Koshy, Jinu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c KARNATAK UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

India; LGM; Microblade; Microlithic; Middle Palaeolithic; Terminal Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149099749     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X0009846X     Document Type: Article

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