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Handaxes: products of sexual selection?
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Why were handaxes made and why was their shape symmetrical and regular? These and many other questions are considered here, in a paper tackling hominid social behaviour and sexual selection.
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- Authors
- Kohn, M., & Mithen, S.
- Venue
- Antiquity
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1999-09
- Volume
- 73
- Issue
- 281
- Pages
- 518-526
- ISSN
- 0003-598X (ISSN-L)
- 1745-1744
- OpenAlex
- W2127430586
- Cited by
- 355
- References
- 70
- FWCI
- 15.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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