Transmission of tool-making through verbal and non-verbal communication: Preliminary experiments in Levallois flake production

Anthropological Science

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 159-168

  Ohnuma, Katsuhiko ^a   Aoki, Kenichi ^b   Akazawa, Takeru ^c  

^a KOKUSHIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

Author keywords

Levallois flake; Non verbal demonstration; Replicative experiments; Verbal demonstration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031172928     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.105.159     Document Type: Article

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