Apprentice flintknapping: Relating material culture and social practice in the upper palaeolithic

Children and Material Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 53-71

  Grimm, Linda ^a  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203991862-14     Document Type: Chapter

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