For the people, by the people: Postwar Japanese archaeology and the Early Paleolithic hoax

Anthropological Science

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 131-139

  Hudson, Mark J ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Applied archaeology; Archaeological practice; Marxism; Paleolithic; Postwar Japanese society

Indexed keywords

EID: 25644453385     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.040804     Document Type: Review

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