An amudian oddity: A giant biface from late lower palaeolithic Qesem Cave

Tel Aviv

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 176-186

  Barkai, Ran ^a   Gopher, Avi ^a   Solodenko, Natalya ^a   Lemorini, Cristina ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acheulo Yabrudian cultural complex; Biface; Handaxe; Middle pleistocene; Qesem Cave

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897612417     PISSN: 03344355     EISSN: 20404786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/033443513X13753505864160     Document Type: Article

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