Diet, mobility, and settlement pattern among Holocene hunter-gatherers in southernmost Africa

Current Anthropology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 569-595

  Sealy, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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DOI: 10.1086/504163     Document Type: Article

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