First technological comparison of Southern African Howiesons Poort and South Asian Microlithic industries: An exploration of inter-regional variability in microlithic assemblages

Quaternary International

Volumn 350, Issue , 2014, Pages 7-25

  Lewis, Laura ^a   Perera, Nimal ^b   Petraglia, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Howiesons Poort; Lithic technology; Microlithic

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MESOLITHIC; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TOOL USE; TYPOLOGY;

SOUTHERN AFRICA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84909964735     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.09.013     Document Type: Article

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