Excavations at Melkbosstrand: Variability among herder sites on Table Bay, South Africa

South African Archaeological Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 179, 2004, Pages 17-28

  Sealy, Judith ^a   Maggs, Tim ^a   Jerardino, Antonieta ^a   Kaplan, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Agency for Cultural Resource Management   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Herder; Later stone age; Sheep; Shell midden; Stone hearth

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845358382     PISSN: 00381969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3889319     Document Type: Article

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