Technology and Landscape Use in the Early Middle Palaeolithic of the Thames Valley

Developments in Quaternary Science

Volumn 14, Issue C, 2011, Pages 67-89

  Scott, Beccy ^a   Ashton, Nick ^a   G Lewis, Simon ^b   Parfitt, Simon ^c,d   White, Mark ^e  

^a BRITISH MUSEUM   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Levallois; Middle Palaeolithic; Thames Valley

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049483628     PISSN: 15710866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53597-9.00006-6     Document Type: Book

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