Do tektites really date the bifaces from the Bose (Baise) Basin, Guangxi, southern China?

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 80, Issue , 2015, Pages 175-178

  Langbroek, Marco ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronostratigraphy; Middle Pleistocene; Mode 2; Movius line; Southeast Asia; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

MINERAL;

ARCHEOLOGY; ASTRONOMY; CHINA; DEVICE MATERIAL; PROCEDURES;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHINA; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; METEOROIDS; MINERALS;

EID: 84923355019     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.06.019     Document Type: Article

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