Middens and moderns: Shellfishing and the Middle Stone Age of the Western Cape, South Africa

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 99, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 243-247

  Parkington, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY; MIDDEN; SHELLFISH;

HOMINIDAE; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0141635179     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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