500,000 year old blades from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 193-200

  Johnson, Cara Roure ^a   McBrearty, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Acheulian; East Africa; Hominin behavior; Middle Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ACHEULEAN; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; HOMINID;

KENYA;

EID: 74449090531     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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