New Results from the Examination of Cut-Marks Using Three-Dimensional Imaging

Developments in Quaternary Science

Volumn 14, Issue C, 2011, Pages 249-262

  Bello, Silvia M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boxgrove; Butchery technique; Cannibalism; Cut marks; Gough's Cave; Human behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049463323     PISSN: 15710866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53597-9.00013-3     Document Type: Book

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