Handaxe-hurling hominids: An unlikely story

Current Anthropology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 566-572

  Whittaker, John C ^a   Mccall, Grant ^a  

^a GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/322547     Document Type: Article

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