Modern human behaviors during the late stage of the MIS3 and the broad spectrum revolution: Evidence from a Shuidonggou Late Paleolithic site

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 379-386

  Guan, Ying ^a   Gao, Xing ^a   Li, Feng ^a,b   Pei, Shu Wen ^a   Chen, Fu You ^a   Zhou, Zhen Yu ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

broad spectrum revolution; early modern human behavior; environmental change; Late Paleolithic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856218788     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4828-x     Document Type: Article

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