An unshakable middle paleolithic? Trends versus conservatism in the predatory niche and their social ramifications

Current Anthropology

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL8., 2013, Pages

  Stiner, Mary C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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