Variability in the Middle Stone Age of Eastern Africa
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Variability in the Middle Stone Age of Eastern Africa
Author(s): Christian A. Tryon and J. Tyler Faith Source: Current Anthropology, Vol. 54, No. S8, Alternative Pathways to Complexity: Evolutionary Trajectories in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age (December 2013), pp. S234-S254 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/67...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Anthropology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0011-3204,1537-5382
DOI: 10.1086/673752