The emergence of language, art and symbolic thinking: A Neandertal test of competing hypotheses

Homo Symbolicus: The Dawn of Language, Imagination and Spirituality

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 112-131

  Zilhão, João ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

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DOI: 10.1075/z.168.06zil     Document Type: Chapter

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