Coping with risk: Later stone age technological strategies at Blydefontein Rock Shelter, South Africa

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 193-226

  Bousman, C Britt ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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