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The Upper Paleolithic—However It Got Here, It's Here: (Can the Middle Paleolithic Be far behind?)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John L. Cotter*
Affiliation:
University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Abstract

Morphological similarities in bone technology between Old World and New World Pleistocene epoch assemblages are noted, and their implications are explored.

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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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