Sex, symmetry and silliness in the bifacial world

Antiquity

Volumn 83, Issue 322, 2009, Pages 1163-1170

  Hayden, Brian ^a   Villeneuve, Suzanne ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 77952937393     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00099440     Document Type: Note

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