Survey and explorations of caves in southeastern Ethiopia: Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age archaeology and Holocene rock art

Quaternary International

Volumn 343, Issue , 2014, Pages 136-147

  Assefa, Zelalem ^a   Pleurdeau, David ^b   Duquesnoy, Frederique ^c   Hovers, Erella ^d   Pearson, Osbjorn ^e   Asrat, Asfawossen ^f   Tsion, Constantinos ^g   Lam, Yin Man ^h  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^f ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^g Ethiopian National Museum (retired)   (Ethiopia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; MESOLITHIC; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; RECONSTRUCTION; ROCK ART; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

ETHIOPIA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84906654718     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.132     Document Type: Article

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