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Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia

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  1. Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, 31905, Israel

    Avraham Ronen

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    Kenichi Aoki

  3. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Ofer Bar-Yosef

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Ronen, A. (2002). Domestic Fire as Evidence for Language. In: Akazawa, T., Aoki, K., Bar-Yosef, O. (eds) Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47153-1_28

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