A re-evaluation of palaeolithic stone tool cutting edge production rates and their implications

Lithic Analysis at the Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 151-162

  Tactikos, Joanne C ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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