Pressure microblade industries in pleistocene-holocene interior Alaska: Current data and discussions

The Emergence of Pressure Blade Making: From Origin to Modern Experimentation

Volumn 9781461420033, Issue , 2012, Pages 347-374

  Coutouly, Yan Axel Gómez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-2003-3_14     Document Type: Chapter

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