Recent discovery of a unique Paleolithic industry from the Yumidong Cave site in the Three Gorges region of Yangtze River, southwest China

Quaternary International

Volumn 434, Issue , 2017, Pages 107-120

  Wei, Guangbiao ^a   Huang, Wanbo ^a,b   Boëda, Eric ^c   Forestier, Hubert ^d   He, Cunding ^a   Chen, Shaokun ^a,b   Zhao, Jianxin ^e   Li, Yinghua ^c,f   Hou, Yamei ^b   Pang, Libo ^a   Wu, Yan ^a  

^a China Three Gorges Museum   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c Inrap)   (France)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Cognition; Lithic technology; Middle to Late Pleistocene; Paleolithic site; Three Gorges

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAVE; COGNITION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOMINID; LITHIC FRAGMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; TOOL USE;

AFRICA; CHINA; EUROPE; THREE GORGES; YANGTZE RIVER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84922731345     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.11.048     Document Type: Article

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