Diversity under the bipolar umbrella

Lithic Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 377-384

  Shott, Michael ^a   Tostevin, Gilbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar reduction; Lithic technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957873422     PISSN: 01977261     EISSN: 20516185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2051618515Y.0000000017     Document Type: Article

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