Palaeoenvironments and cultural sequence of the Florisbad Middle Stone Age hominid site, South Africa

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1409-1425

  Kuman, Kathleen ^a   Inbar, Moshe ^b   Clarke, R J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaic Homo Sapiens; Florisbad; Florisian land mammal age; Homo Helmei; Middle Stone Age; Palaeoenvironments; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; STONE AGE;

FLORISBAD; FREE STATE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0033389999     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jasc.1999.0439     Document Type: Article

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