Early to Late Pleistocene human settlements and the evolution of lithic technology in the Nihewan Basin, North China: A macroscopic perspective

Quaternary International

Volumn 295, Issue , 2013, Pages 204-214

  Liu, Y ^a,b   Hu, Y ^a,b   Wei, Q ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN EVOLUTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MATERIAL CULTURE; PALEOLITHIC; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TOOL USE;

CHINA; HEBEI; NIHEWAN BASIN;

EID: 84876730392     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.01.015     Document Type: Article

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