From Homogeneity to Multiplicity: A New Approach to the Study of Archaic Stone Tools

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402090592, 2009, Pages 25-37

  Carbonell, Eudald ^a   Sala, Robert ^a   Barsky, Deborah ^b   Celiberti, Vincenzo ^b  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b CERP Centre Européen de Recherches Préhistoriques de Tautavel   (France)

Author keywords

Diversity; Human dispersal; Mode 1; Multiplicity; Oldowan; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045898120     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9060-8_3     Document Type: Chapter

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