How levallois reduction is similar to, and not similar to, playing chess

Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 83-103

  Wynn, Thomas ^a   Coolidge, Frederick L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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