Simulating mammoth hunting and extinctions: Implications for North America

Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 176-215

  Mithen, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315887708-16     Document Type: Chapter

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