Middle Stone Age (MSA) site distributions in eastern Africa and their relationship to Quaternary environmental change, refugia and the evolution of Homo sapiens

2008/11/08 by L BASELL, Laura Basell · 17 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.09.010

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