The earliest Late Paleolithic in North China: Site formation processes at Shuidonggou Locality 7

Quaternary International

Volumn 347, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 122-132

  Pei, Shuwen ^a   Niu, Dongwei ^a   Guan, Ying ^a   Nian, Xiaomei ^a   Kuman, Kathleen ^b   Bae, Christopher J ^c   Gao, Xing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Late paleolithic; Late pleistocene; North china; Shuidonggou locality 7; Site formation processes; Stone artifacts concentration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923224778     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.03.052     Document Type: Article

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