GEA ( Wiley ) RIGHT INTERACTIVE Research Note : Acheulian Sites near Bir Kiseiba in the Darb el Arba ’ in Desert , Egypt : New Data
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C. Vance Haynes, Jr.,1 T. A. Maxwell,2 D. L. Johnson,3 and Ali Kilani4 1Departments of Anthropology and Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 2Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560 3Department of Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 4Egyptian Geological Survey, 3 Saleh Salem Street, Cairo, Egypt
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