The Middle Paleolithic of the Levant: Recursion and Convergence

Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 189-211

  Shea, John J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blade Production; Current Anthropology; Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage; Modern Human; Oxygen Isotope Stage

Indexed keywords

EID: 85118650584     PISSN: 15682722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-24661-4_11     Document Type: Chapter

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