A large handaxe from Wadi Dabsa and early hominin adaptations within the Arabian Peninsula

2017/12/01 by Frederick W.F. Foulds, Frederick Foulds, Andrew Shuttleworth +8 · 4 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

paper · doi:10.15184/aqy.2017.153

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