On the industrial attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 194-210

  Dibble, Harold L ^a,b,c   Aldeias, Vera ^a   Jacobs, Zenobia ^d   Olszewski, Deborah I ^a   Rezek, Zeljko ^a   Lin, Sam C ^a   Alvarez Fernández, Esteban ^e   Barshay Szmidt, Carolyn C ^a,f   Hallett Desguez, Emily ^c   Reed, Denné ^g   Reed, Kaye ^c   Richter, Daniel ^b,h   Steele, Teresa E ^b,i   Skinner, Anne ^j   Blackwell, Bonnie ^j   Doronicheva, Ekaterina ^a   El Hajraoui, Mohamed ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^k Institut National des Sciences de l'Archeologie et du Patrimoine   (Morocco)

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Author keywords

Atero Mousterian; Maghrebian Mousterian; Middle Paleolithic; Middle Stone Age; Morocco; North Africa; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; PALEOLITHIC; TOOL USE;

MAGHREB; MOROCCO;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84875227364     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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