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The Thak Hypothesis: a Prestige-Good Model of Early Hominine Behaviour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2009

Andrew Sherratt
Andrew Sherratt
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Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 2PH
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , October 1999 , pp. 277 - 280
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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1999

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