The Korean early Late Paleolithic revisited: a view from Galsanri

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 843-863

  Lee, Hyeong Woo ^a   Bae, Christopher J ^b   Lee, Changseung ^c  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Honam Cultural Property Research Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Blades; Ground stone tools; Korea; Late Paleolithic; Marine isotope stage 3

Indexed keywords

EID: 85025471073     PISSN: 18669557     EISSN: 18669565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-015-0301-0     Document Type: Article

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