Alternative pathways to complexity: Evolutionary trajectories in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age: An introduction to supplement 8

Current Anthropology

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL8., 2013, Pages

  Kuhn, Steven L ^a   Hovers, Erella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 84893249830     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/673501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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