Subsistence behaviors and bone modifications in the early Acheulean in Konso, Ethiopia;Comportements de subsistance et modifications osseuses à l'aube de l'Acheuléen à Konso, Éthiopie

Anthropologie

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 291-320

  Echassoux, Anna ^a  

^a Laboratoire departemental de prehistoire du Lazaret   (France)

Author keywords

Bone tools; Cutmarks; East Africa; Lower Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ACHEULEAN; BONE; FOSSIL; HOMINID; SUBSISTENCE; TOOL USE;

ETHIOPIA; KONSO;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; HOMO ERECTUS; PARANTHROPUS BOISEI;

EID: 84866870895     PISSN: 00035521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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