Rethinking the initial Upper Paleolithic

Quaternary International

Volumn 347, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-38

  Kuhn, Steven L ^a   Zwyns, Nicolas ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blade technology; Early upper paleolithic; Hominin dispersals; Levallois

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923264147     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.05.040     Document Type: Article

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