Weapon trials: The atlatl and experiments in hunting technology

Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology: Examining Technology through Production and Use

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 195-224

  Whittaker, John ^a  

^a GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

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