Sink the Mousterian? Named stone tool industries (NASTIES) as obstacles to investigating hominin evolutionary relationships in the Later Middle Paleolithic Levant

Quaternary International

Volumn 350, Issue , 2014, Pages 169-179

  Shea, John J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MOUSTERIAN; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TOOL USE;

LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84909590215     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.01.024     Document Type: Article

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