Interview with a Neanderthal: An experimental approach for reconstructing scraper production rules, and their implications for imposed form in Middle Palaeolithic tools

Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 165-184

  Bisson, Michael S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 22144440603     PISSN: 09597743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774301000099     Document Type: Review

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