Environments and cultural change in the indian subcontinent implications for the dispersal of homo sapiens in the late pleistocene

Current Anthropology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2017, Pages S463-S479

  Blinkhorn, James ^a,b   Petraglia, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History ^*  (Germany)

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EID: 85037646844     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/693462     Document Type: Article

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