Out of Africa: The Dispersal of the Earliest Technical Systems Reconsidered

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-136

  Carbonell, Eudald ^a   Mosquera, Marina ^a   Rodríguez, Xosé Pedro ^a   Sala, Robert ^a   Van Der Made, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

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EID: 0000503279     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jaar.1998.0331     Document Type: Article

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