The Middle Paleolithic of Arabia: The View from the Hadramawt Region, Yemen

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048127184, 2010, Pages 151-168

  Crassard, Rémy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dispersals; Hadramawt; Levallois; Middle Paleolithic; Yemen

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907083594     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2719-1_12     Document Type: Chapter

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