The Middle Stone Age sequences at Rose Cottage Cave: A search for continuity and discontinuity

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 470-475

  Harper, P T N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; HOLOCENE; INDUSTRIAL HISTORY; STONE AGE; STONE TOOL; STONE TOOLS;

FREE STATE; ROSE COTTAGE CAVE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0031462841     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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