Early hominid stone tool production and technical skill 2.34 Myr ago in West Turkana, Kenya

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1999-05-06

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, History

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  DOI 10.1038/19959PMID 10331389
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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