The origins of hunting & gathering in the Congo basin: A perspective on the Middle Stone Age Lupemban industry

Before Farming: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers

Volumn , Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Taylor, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lithic technology; Lupemban; Middle Pleistocene; Middle stone age; MSA; Rainforest foraging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877616015     PISSN: 14764253     EISSN: 14764261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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