Landscape learning and lithic technology: Seasonal mobility, enculturation and tool apprenticeship among the early Palaeo-Eskimos

Structured Worlds: The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Thought and Action

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 95-115

  Milne, S Brooke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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