Human Activities and Site Formation at Modern Lake Margin Foraging Camps in Kenya

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 397-440

  Gifford Gonzalez, Diane ^a   Stewart, Kathlyn M ^b   Rybczynski, Natalia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnoarchaeology; zooarchaeology; butchery; site formation; fish; reptile; Africa; Lake Turkana

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000740815     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jaar.1999.0337     Document Type: Article

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