Spearthrower performance: Ethnographic and experimental research

Antiquity

Volumn 71, Issue 274, 1997, Pages 890-897

  Hutchings, W Karl ^a   Brüchert, Lorenz W ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X0008580X     Document Type: Article

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