Long-distance obsidian transport in prehistoric Northeast Asia

Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-5

  Kuzmin, Yaroslav V ^a  

^a SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Japan; Korea; Neolithic; Northeast China; Obsidian; Palaeolithic; Palaeometal; Prehistoric exchange; Russian Far East

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896796798     PISSN: 01561316     EISSN: 18351794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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