Current developments in inferring cognitive capabilities from the archaeological traces left by stone tools

Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 207-226

  Barnard, Philip J ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

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