The nile corridor and the out-of-Africa model An examination of the archaeological record

Current Anthropology

Volumn 39, Issue SUPPL.1, 1998, Pages

  Van Peer, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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DOI: 10.1086/204692     Document Type: Article

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