Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies in Tropical Grasslands: Model Building and Testing in the East African Middle and Later Stone Age

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 189-225

  Marean, Curtis W ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000201344     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jaar.1997.0309     Document Type: Article

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