Resource exploitation: Animal use during the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 100, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 151-158

  Plug, Ina ^a  

^a NONE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; HUNTING; RESOURCE USE; STONE AGE;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS; EQUUS CAPENSIS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MEGALOTRAGUS PRISCUS; PELOROVIS ANTIQUUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3042767462     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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