Use-wear in the 1990s in Western Europe: Potential and limitations of a method

Lithic Analysis at the Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 163-172

  Ibáñez, Juan José ^a   González, Jesús Emilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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