Dispersals of Early Humans: Adaptations, Frontiers, and New Territories

Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 2371-2400

  Bolus, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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