Reconstructing late pleistocene climates, landscapes, and human activities in Northern Borneo from excavations in the Niah Caves

Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 140-157

  Reynolds, Tim ^a   Barker, Graeme ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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