When Were the Earliest Hominin Migrations to the Japanese Islands?

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048190935, 2011, Pages 191-200

  Matsufuji, Kazuto ^a  

^a DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blade technology; Edge polished axe; Happusan II; Kanedori; Nojiriko Tategahana; Small flake industry; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894479223     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9094-2_15     Document Type: Chapter

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