Newly discovered Palaeolithic artefacts from loess deposits and their ages in Lantian, central China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 651-661

  Wang, Shejiang ^a   Lu, Huayu ^b   Zhang, Hongyan ^b   Sun, Xuefeng ^b   Yi, Shuangwen ^b   Chen, Yingyong ^b   Zhang, Gaike ^c   Xing, Luda ^a,d   Sun, Weigang ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Guizhou Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology   (China)

Author keywords

Acheulian type lithic artefacts; Lantian area; Late Pleistocene; Loess deposit and chronology; Palaeolithic open air sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893938069     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-0105-5     Document Type: Article

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