A Nubian Complex Site from Central Arabia: Implications for Levallois Taxonomy and Human Dispersals during the Upper Pleistocene

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Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Crassard, Rémy ^a   Hilbert, Yamandú Hieronymus ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BIOTYPOLOGY; CLIMATE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; SAUDI ARABIA; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84880774248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069221     Document Type: Article

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