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DibblePDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 35, Number 1Feb., 1994 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/204242 Views: 10Total views on this site Citations: 68Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1994 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological ResearchPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Mae Goder-Goldberger, Ariel Malinsky-Buller The Initial Upper Paleolithic and Its Place Within the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition of Southwest Asia: What Hides Behind the Curtain of Taxonomies?, Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 5, no.11 (Jul 2022).https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-022-00112-0Marcel Otte La signification de l'Aurignacien du Zagros, L'Anthropologie 126, no.33 (Jul 2022): 103032.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2022.103032Stéphanie Bonilauri, Jessica Giraud, Mana Jami Alahmadi, Marion Lemée, Isis Mesfin, Eric Boëda, Mathilde Mura, Saber Ahmed Saber, Kamal Raeuf Aziz, Fereidoun Biglari, Kamal Rasheed Raheem The Paleolithic of northwestern Zagros. 2012–2019 MAFGS Survey: Data and preliminary results, L'Anthropologie 126, no.33 (Jul 2022): 103053.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2022.103053Mario Mata-González, Britt M. 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