Levallois and non-Levallois blade production at Shuidonggou in Ningxia, North China

Quaternary International

Volumn 295, Issue , 2013, Pages 191-203

  Boeda E ^a   Hou, Y M ^a   Forestier, H ^b   Sarel, J ^c,d   Wang, H M ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c Inrap)   (France)

^d Des Espaces et des Territoires au Pliocène et Pléistocène   (France)

^e Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Institute of Cultural Relics   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; LITHIC FRAGMENT; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; PREHISTORIC; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CHINA; NINGXIA HUIZU; ORDOS;

EID: 84876711227     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.07.020     Document Type: Article

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