Making friends, making tools, and making symbols

Current Anthropology

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Rossano, Matt J ^a  

^a SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/650481     Document Type: Article

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