The oldest Hoabinhian technocomplex in Asia (43.5 ka) at Xiaodong rockshelter, Yunnan Province, southwest China

Quaternary International

Volumn 400, Issue , 2016, Pages 166-174

  Ji, Xueping ^a,b   Kuman, Kathleen ^c   Clarke, R J ^c   Forestier, Hubert ^d   Li, Yinghua ^e   Ma, Juan ^f   Qiu, Kaiwei ^f   Li, Hao ^b,c   Wu, Yun ^a  

^a Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f Lincang Institute Cultural Relics   (China)

Author keywords

Hoabinhian; Pebble tools; Southeast Asia; Southwest China; Uniface; Yunnan Province

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CAVE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HUNTER-GATHERER; PEBBLE; PLEISTOCENE; TOOL USE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 84963749638     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.09.080     Document Type: Article

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