Social, spatial and chronological patterning in marine food use as determined by ä 13 C measurements of Holocene human skeletons from the south‐western Cape, South Africa

World Archaeology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 87-102

  Sealy, J C ^a   van der Merwe, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENTAL CARIES; FOOD WASTE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SKELETONS; MARINE FOODS; RADIOCARBON DATES; TOOTH WEAR;

SOUTH AFRICA, ELANDS BAY;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BONE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SEA FOOD; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE AND BONES; DIET; HISTORY, ANCIENT; SEAFOOD; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0024157377     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1988.9980058     Document Type: Article

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