Tracking in Caves: Experience Based Reading of Pleistocene Human Footprints in French Caves
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عنوان ژورنال: Cambridge Archaeological Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0959-7743,1474-0540
DOI: 10.1017/s0959774315000050