Primate archaeology

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7253, 2009, Pages 339-344

  Haslam, Michael ^a   Hernandez Aguilar, Adriana ^a   Ling, Victoria ^a   Carvalho, Susana ^a   De La Torre, Ignacio ^b   Destefano, April ^c   Du, Andrew ^c   Hardy, Bruce ^d   Harris, Jack ^c   Marchant, Linda ^e   Matsuzawa, Tetsuro ^f   McGrew, William ^a   Mercader, Julio ^g   Mora, Rafael ^h   Petraglia, Michael ^a   Roche, Hélène ⁱ   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^j   Warren, Rebecca ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KENYON COLLEGE   (United States)

^e MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

ⁱ CNRS   (France)

^j INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARCHAEOLOGY; HOMINID; TOOL USE;

ARCHEOLOGY; BEHAVIOR; CHIMPANZEE; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GORILLA; HISTORY; HUMAN; MACACA; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ARCHAEOLOGY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HOMINIDAE; HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; PRIMATES; TECHNOLOGY;

PRIMATES;

EID: 67650796399     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08188     Document Type: Review

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