The later Pleistocene in the Northeastern Central African rainforest

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789401775199, 2016, Pages 301-319

  Cornelissen, Els ^a  

^a ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); Fishing; Ituri; Later Stone Age; Lupemban; Quartz microlithic industries

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026556107     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-7520-5_16     Document Type: Chapter

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