Acheulian giant-core technology: A worldwide perspective

Current Anthropology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 335-367

  Sharon, Gonen ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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