Stone tool experiments and reduction methods at the Acheulean site of Isampur Quarry, India

Antiquity

Volumn 83, Issue 321, 2009, Pages 769-785

  Shipton, C B K ^a   Petraglia, M D ^a   Paddayya, K ^b  

^a Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies   (United Kingdom)

^b Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute Pune   (India)

Author keywords

Acheulean; India; Lithic experiments; Reduction sequences

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953070169     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00098987     Document Type: Article

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