Current Directions in West African Prehistory

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• Publication year

  1983

• Venue

  Annual Review of Anthropology

• Publication date

  1983-10-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1146/ANNUREV.AN.12.100183.001243
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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