Further study on the late pleistocene megafaunal extinction in the Japanese archipelago

Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 325-344

  Iwase, Akira ^a   Takahashi, Keiichi ^b   Izuho, Masami ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LAKE BIWA MUSEUM   (Japan)

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