Female proto-symbolic strategies

Women in Human Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 153-171

  Power, Camilla ^a   Aiello, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203973103-15     Document Type: Chapter

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