Identifying mechanisms behind middle paleolithic and middle stone age cultural trajectories

Current Anthropology

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL8., 2013, Pages

  d'Errico, Francesco ^a   Banks, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

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DOI: 10.1086/673388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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