Zhoukoudian upper cave revisited

Current Anthropology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 732-745

  Norton, Christopher J ^b   Gao, Xing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 53549094373     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588637     Document Type: Article

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