Some key issues in the emergence and diversity of “modern” human behavior

Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3-22

  Mellars, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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