Reports: Can anthropologists distinguish good and poor hunters? Implications for hunting hypotheses, sharing conventions, and cultural transmission

Current Anthropology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 369-377

  Hill, Kim ^a   Kintigh, Keith ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 69249116969     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597981     Document Type: Article

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