From the Cover: Implications for complex cognition from the hafting of tools with compound adhesives in the Middle Stone Age, South Africa.

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  2009

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  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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  Unknown publication date

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  Medicine, History

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.0900957106PMID 19433786PMCID PMC2700998
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