Disparate stone age technological evolution in north china lithic technological variability and relations between populations during mis 3

Journal of Anthropological Research

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-67

  Feng, Li ^a   Kuhn, Steven L ^b   Olsen, John W ^b   Chen, Fuyou ^c   Gao, Xing ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins IVPP   (United States)

Author keywords

Flake technology; Levallois technology; Marine Isotope Stage 3; Middle Upper Paleolithic transition; North China; Population interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898401937     PISSN: 00917710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3998/jar.0521004.0070.103     Document Type: Article

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