Hummalian industry (El Kowm, Central Syria): Core reduction variability in the Levantine Early Middle Palaeolithic

Quartar

Volumn 61, Issue , 2014, Pages 23-48

  Wojtczak, Dorota ^a,b   Le Tensorer, Jean Marie ^a   Demidenko, Yuri E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Blade industry; Bladelets; Burin cores; Nahr Ibrahim; Site function; Truncated faceted pieces

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944240953     PISSN: 03757471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.7485/QU61-02     Document Type: Article

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