A Neutral Model of Stone Raw Material Procurement
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Motoo Kimura (1983:xiv) The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution The richness of stone raw material types in an archaeological assemblage, the geographic distances over which those materials were transported, and the technological forms in which they were transported have provided empirical benchmarks for inferring the organization of Paleolithic adaptive strategies (FéblotA NEUTRAL MODEL OF STONE RAW MATERIAL PROCUREMENT
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