The Evolution of the Human Capacity for “Killing at a Distance”: The Human Fossil Evidence for the Evolution of Projectile Weaponry

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402096983, 2009, Pages 201-210

  Churchill, Steven E ^a   Rhodes, Jill A ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional morphology; Hominins; Paleoanthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045434341     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9699-0_15     Document Type: Chapter

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