Small flake production and lithic recycling at late acheulian revadim, Israel

Quaternary International

Volumn 361, Issue , 2015, Pages 46-60

  Agam, Aviad ^a   Marder, Ofer ^b   Barkai, Ran ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Core on flake; Flake production; Late acheulian; Lithic recycling; Lower paleolithic; Revadim

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922750155     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.06.070     Document Type: Article

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