Dissecting palimpsests in a Late Lower and Middle Paleolithic flint acquisition site on the Madaba Plateau, Jordan

Quaternary International

Volumn 331, Issue , 2014, Pages 74-94

  Bisson, Michael S ^a   Nowell, April ^b   Cordova, Carlos ^c   Poupart, Melanie ^a   Ames, Christopher ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; FLINT; HOLOCENE; HOMINID; PALEOLITHIC;

JORDAN; MADABA;

EID: 84899901661     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.031     Document Type: Article

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