Human activity patterns at the Horokazawa Toma Upper Paleolithic stone tool manufacturing site in the Shirataki obsidian source area: Combining excavation with experimentation

Quaternary International

Volumn 397, Issue , 2016, Pages 448-473

  Kimura, Hideaki ^a   Girya, Evgeny ^b  

^a Visitor Center of Shirataki Geo Park   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Block on block technique; Distribution network of obsidian; Horokazawa site locality Toma; Obsidian source area; Upper Paleolithic age; Yubetsu technique

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MANUFACTURING; OBSIDIAN; PALEOLITHIC;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN;

EID: 84930793718     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.04.015     Document Type: Article

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