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Tool-use and Language in Apes and Humans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Steven Mithen
Steven Mithen
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Department of ArchaeologyUniversity of ReadingReading RG6 2AA
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , October 1993 , pp. 285 - 294
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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1993

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