Identifying low-level food producers: Detecting mobility from lithics

Antiquity

Volumn 84, Issue 323, 2010, Pages 185-194

  Holdaway, Simon ^a   Wendrich, Willeke ^b   Phillipps, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Cores; Cortex; Flakes; Hunter gatherers; Lithics; Low level producers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952898794     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00099853     Document Type: Article

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