Explaining global patterns in lower paleolithic technology: Simulations of hominin dispersal and cultural transmission using stepping out

Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 175-190

  Smith, Sam ^a   Hughes, John ^b   Mithen, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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