A method for identifying stone age hunting tools

South African Archaeological Bulletin

Volumn 60, Issue 182, 2005, Pages 115-120

  Lombard, Marlize ^a,b  

^a NATAL MUSEUM   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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