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European Upper Palaeolithic cultural taxa: better off without them?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2019

John J. Shea*
Affiliation:
Anthropology Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11790, USA (Email: john.shea@stonybrook.edu)

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2019 

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