On Naming Things: Behavioral Changes in the Later Middle to Earlier Late Pleistocene, Viewed From the Eastern Sahara

Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 13-28

  Kleindienst, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archaeological Horizon; Aterian Complex; Cultural Evidence; Kharga Oasis; Western Desert

Indexed keywords

EID: 85118657081     PISSN: 15682722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-24661-4_2     Document Type: Chapter

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