Excavating the prehistoric mind: The brain as a cultural artefact and material culture as biological extension

Proceedings of the British Academy

Volumn 158, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mithen, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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