Explaining the 'Klasies Pattern': Kua ethnoarchaeology, the Die Kelders Middle Stone Age archaeofauna, long bone fragmentation and carnivore ravaging

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-29

  Bartram Jr , Laurence E ^a   Marean, Curtis W ^b  

^a Thinking Strings   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnoarchaeology; Faunal analysis; Klasies river mouth; Middle palaeolithic; Middle stone age; Taphonomy; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; PALEOLITHIC;

CAPE PROVINCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 0033016442     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jasc.1998.0291     Document Type: Article

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