Technological systems, population dynamics, and historical process in the MSA of Northern Africa

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789401775199, 2016, Pages 147-159

  Van Peer, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aterian; Lupemban; Maghreb; Middle Stone Age; Nile Valley; Nubian Complex; Sahara; Sangoan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84974728525     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-7520-5_8     Document Type: Chapter

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