Earliest dates and implications of microlithic industries of late pleistocene from Mahadebbera and Kana, Purulia district, West Bengal

Current Science

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1167-1171

  Basak, Bishnupriya ^a   Srivastava, Pradeep ^b   Dasgupta, Sujit ^c   Kumar, Anil ^b   Rajaguru, S N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^c Geological Survey of India   (India)

^d Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute Pune   (India)

Author keywords

Colluvium; Excavation; Microlihic industries; Modern humans

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907778355     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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