On how we understand limpet sizes, a reply to Parkington SAAB 64, December 2009

South African Archaeological Bulletin

Volumn 65, Issue 191, 2010, Pages 105-107

  Jerardino, Antonieta ^a   Horwitz, Liora Kolska ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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