Diagenesis of bone from Border Cave: Implications for the age of the Border Cave hominids

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 499-506

  Sillen, Andrew ^a   Morris, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Africa; Archaeology; Bone mineral crystallinity; Border Cave; Middle Stone Age

Indexed keywords

HOMINIDAE;

BONE MINERAL CRYSTALLINITY; HOMINID; QUATERNARY;

SOUTH AFRICA, KWAZULU-NATAL, BORDER CAVE;

EID: 0030429194     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1996.0075     Document Type: Article

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