First evidence of eastern Preboreal pioneers in arctic Finland and Norway

Quartar

Volumn 58, Issue , 2011, Pages 183-209

  Rankama, Tuija ^a   Kankaanpää, Jarmo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blade technology; Culture contact; Lapland; Mesolithic; Pioneer settlement; Post Swiderian

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863910595     PISSN: 03757471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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