Lithic assemblage from the Jingshuiwan Paleolithic site of the early Late Pleistocene in the Three Gorges, China

Quaternary International

Volumn 211, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 66-74

  Pei, Shuwen ^a,b   Gao, Xing ^a,b   Feng, Xingwu ^a,b   Chen, Fuyou ^a,b   Dennell, Robin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOMINID; LITHIC FRAGMENT; LITHOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; RIVER BED; RIVER TERRACE; TOOL USE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; THREE GORGES; YANGTZE RIVER;

HOMO ERECTUS;

EID: 71549172512     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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