Cranial injuries to later stone age children from the Modder River mouth, Western Cape Province, South Africa

South African Archaeological Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 180, 2004, Pages 59-65

  Pfeiffer, S ^a,b   Van Der Merwe, N J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bioarchaeology; Foraging; Forensic anthropology; Skeletal trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 29244476130     PISSN: 00381969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3889244     Document Type: Article

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