Variability in Early Ahmarian lithic technology and its implications for the model of a Levantine origin of the Protoaurignacian

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 82, Issue , 2015, Pages 67-87

  Kadowaki, Seiji ^a   Omori, Takayuki ^b   Nishiaki, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ahmarian; Homo sapiens; Levant; Lithic technology; Protoaurignacian; Upper palaeolithic

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHRONOLOGY; HOMINID; PALEOLITHIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRATIGRAPHY; TECHNOLOGY;

LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

HOMO SAPIENS;

ARCHEOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVICES; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTORY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; TECHNOLOGY; TRENDS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; EUROPE; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; SYRIA; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 84928627010     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.02.017     Document Type: Article

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