The still bay and howiesons poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding middle stone age technologies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Soriano, Sylvain ^a   Villa, Paola ^b,c,d   Delagnes, Anne ^c,d   Degano, Ilaria ^e   Pollarolo, Luca ^c,f   Lucejko, Jeannette J ^e   Henshilwood, Christopher ^c,g   Wadley, Lyn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BIOTYPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MESOLITHIC; PERCUSSION; PLEISTOCENE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARDIZATION; STRATIGRAPHY; ANIMAL; CAVE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FOSSIL; HUMAN; TECHNOLOGY; TIME FACTOR; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ARCHAEOLOGY; CAVES; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HUMANS; SOUTH AFRICA; TECHNOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84940495095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131127     Document Type: Article

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