The living as symbols, the dead as symbols: Problematising the scale and pace of hominin symbolic evolution

Homo Symbolicus: The Dawn of Language, Imagination and Spirituality

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 141-161

  Pettitt, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1075/z.168.08pet     Document Type: Chapter

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