Predetermined flake production at the Lower/Middle Paleolithic boundary: Yabrudian scraper-blank technology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Shimelmitz, Ron ^a   Kuhn, Steven L ^b   Ronen, Avraham ^a   Weinstein Evron, Mina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHEULO YABRUDIAN CULTURAL COMPLEX; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL PERIOD; ERGOMETRY; FOSSIL HOMININ; ISRAEL; LIFE HISTORY; PALEOLITHIC; STONE ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES;

ARCHAEOLOGY;

EID: 84906996755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106293     Document Type: Article

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