Classifying 'eoliths': How cultural cognition featured in arguments surrounding claims for the earliest human artefacts as these developed between 1880 and 1900

Journal of Cognition and Culture

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 341-375

  Ellen, Roy ^a   Muthana, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

classification; cognitive anthropology; Eoliths; history of archaeology; perception of artefacts

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651514657     PISSN: 15677095     EISSN: 15685373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853710X531221     Document Type: Review

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