The eastern Asian 'Middle Palaeolithic' revisited: A view from Korea

Antiquity

Volumn 90, Issue 353, 2016, Pages 1151-1165

  Seong, Chuntaek ^a   Bae, Christopher J ^b  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

eastern Asia; geochronology; Korea; Middle Palaeolithic; typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988474865     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2016.141     Document Type: Article

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