Variability in Raw Material Selectivity at the Late Pliocene sites of Lokalalei, West Turkana, Kenya

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402090592, 2009, Pages 85-97

  Harmand, Sonia ^a  

^a Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense   (France)

Author keywords

Assemblage variation; Lithic technology; Raw material selection; Resource availability; Volcanic petrography

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045937709     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9060-8_8     Document Type: Chapter

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