A comparative use-wear analysis of late Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) chipped stone artefacts from the southern Levant

Levant

Volumn 39, Issue , 2007, Pages 97-122

  Richter, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61049403687     PISSN: 00758914     EISSN: 17563801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/lev.2007.39.1.97     Document Type: Article

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