"Early" Middle Stone Age lithic technology of the Kapthurin Formation (Kenya)

Current Anthropology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 367-375

  Tryon, Christian A ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/503066     Document Type: Article

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