The Middle Paleolithic sequence of Wadi Mushkuna Rockshelter and its implications for hominin settlement dynamics in western Syria

Quaternary International

Volumn 435, Issue , 2017, Pages 106-114

  Bretzke, Knut ^a   Kandel, Andrew W ^a   Conard, Nicholas J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoecology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Excavation; Land use; Levant; Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition; Paleolithic

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; EXCAVATION; HOMINID; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND USE; PALEOLITHIC; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

DAMASCUS; DIMASHQ [SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC]; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

EID: 84958280068     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.01.035     Document Type: Article

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