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Hominid species and stone-tool assemblages: how are they related?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robert Foley
Robert Foley*
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Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ
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Abstract

A fast-growing quantity of fossil material – post-cranial as well as skulls and teeth – is combining with cladistics and other new theoretical perspectives radically to change the picture of human evolution. Here, a summary of that picture is given, as the basis for a re-examination of that fundamental question of Pleistocene archaeology, the matching with the bones of the stones of the palaeolithic sequence.

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Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 233 , November 1987 , pp. 380 - 392
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1987

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