Is the Dingcun lithic assembly a "chopper-chopping tool industry", or "Late Acheulian"?

Quaternary International

Volumn 321, Issue , 2014, Pages 3-11

  Yang, Shi Xia ^a,b   Huang, Wei Wen ^a   Hou, Ya Mei ^a   Yuan, Bao Yin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHEULEAN; CHRONOLOGY; LITHIC FRAGMENT; LOESS; PALEOLITHIC; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; RIVER TERRACE; STRATIGRAPHY; TRIBUTARY; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

CHINA; FEN RIVER; SHANXI; YELLOW RIVER;

GALIUM APARINE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84893681877     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.012     Document Type: Article

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