Butchering with small tools: The implications of the Evron Quarry assemblage for the behaviour of Homo erectus

Antiquity

Volumn 87, Issue 336, 2013, Pages 350-367

  Chazan, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acheulean; Handaxe; Levant; Lower Palaeolithic; Small tool

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878259708     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00048997     Document Type: Article

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