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A Fossil Human Mandible from a Levalloiso–Mousterian Horizon in Cyrenaica

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  1. Department of Archæology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge,

    C. B. M. McBURNEY,  J. C. TREVOR &  L. H. WELLS

  2. Department of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh,

    J. C. TREVOR &  L. H. WELLS

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McBURNEY, C., TREVOR, J. & WELLS, L. A Fossil Human Mandible from a Levalloiso–Mousterian Horizon in Cyrenaica. Nature 172, 889–891 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172889a0

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