A geometric morphometric assessment of plan shape in bone and stone acheulean bifaces from the Middle Pleistocene site of Castel di Guido, Latium, Italy

New Perspectives on Old Stones: Analytical Approaches to Paleolithic Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 23-41

  Costa, August G ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6861-6_2     Document Type: Chapter

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