Cultural evolution during the middle and late pleistocene in Africa and Eurasia

Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 2465-2508

  Conard, Nicholas J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoecology   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39979-4_74     Document Type: Chapter

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