A Twenty-First Century Archaeology of Stone Artifacts

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-131

  Holdaway, Simon ^a   Douglass, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnoarchaeology; Stone artifacts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857355165     PISSN: 10725369     EISSN: 15737764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-011-9103-6     Document Type: Article

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