A reassessment of the wooden fragment from Florisbad, South Africa

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 637-650

  Bamford, Marion K ^a   Henderson, Zoë L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL MUSEUM   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Eemian; Florisbad; Palaeoenvironments; Wooden fragment; Zanthoxylum chalybeum

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; EEMIAN; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION HISTORY; WOOD;

FLORISBAD; FREE STATE; SOUTH AFRICA;

ZANTHOXYLUM CHALYBEUM;

EID: 0038322996     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4403(02)00245-5     Document Type: Article

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