On variability and complexity: Lessons from the levantine middle paleolithic record

Current Anthropology

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL8., 2013, Pages

  Hovers, Erella ^a   Belfer Cohen, Anna ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.1086/673880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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