Bone artefacts from the middle stone age at Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa

Current Anthropology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 890-895

  Henshilwood, Christopher ^a   Sealy, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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EID: 0000307845     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/204678     Document Type: Article

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