Questioning the link between stone tool standardization and behavioral modernity

New Perspectives on Old Stones: Analytical Approaches to Paleolithic Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 61-81

  Monnier, Gilliane F ^a   McNulty, Kieran P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6861-6_4     Document Type: Chapter

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