Human technological and behavioral adaptation to landscape changes around the last glacial maximum in Japan: A focus on Hokkaido

Paleoamerican Odyssey

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 45-64

  Izuho, Masami ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blade ; Blade microblade based toolkits; Flake ; Geochronology; Hokkaido; Last Glacial Maximum; Upper Paleolithic

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EID: 84945403280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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