Placing archaeology within a unified science of cultural evolution

Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 21-32

  Mesoudi, Alex ^a   O'Brien, Michael J ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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