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Techno-morphological aspects of microlithic projectile implements: Examples from the levantine Geometric Kebaran and the east European Epigravettian

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This article is a part of the Ph.D thesis currently carried out under the supervision of Daniel Kaufman, Dmitri Nuzhnyi and Ofer Bar-Yosef.

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Yaroshevich, A. Techno-morphological aspects of microlithic projectile implements: Examples from the levantine Geometric Kebaran and the east European Epigravettian. Archeol.Ethnol. Anthropol. Eurasia 28, 8–17 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1563011006040025

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