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Stone tools, space and hominid evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Roland Fletcher
Roland Fletcher*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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A new suggestion is made for early hominids' interest in stones, and thence for the origin of stone tools.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 236 , September 1988 , pp. 532 - 535
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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