Technological variability in the Late Palaeolithic lithic industries of the Egyptian Nile Valley: The case of the Silsilian and Afian industries

Alice Leplongeon

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188824

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Technological variability in the Late Palaeolithic lithic industries of the Egyptian Nile Valley: The case of the Silsilian and Afian industries

Alice Leplongeon

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: alice.leplongeon@gmail.com

Affiliations McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, UMR CNRS 7194 HNHP, département Homme et Environnement, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle–Université de Perpignan Via Domitia–Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8464-8063

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Technological variability in the Late Palaeolithic lithic industries of the Egyptian Nile Valley: The case of the Silsilian and Afian industries

Alice Leplongeon

Published: December 27, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188824

About the Authors

Alice Leplongeon

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: alice.leplongeon@gmail.com

Affiliations McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, UMR CNRS 7194 HNHP, département Homme et Environnement, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle–Université de Perpignan Via Domitia–Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8464-8063

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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