Foreword challenges and approaches in the study of middle paleolithic behavioral change

Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages vii-xvii

  Mellars, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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