Taphonomy of a lair near the peers (or skildegat) cave in Fish Hoek, Western Cape Province, South Africa

South African Archaeological Bulletin

Volumn 61, Issue 183, 2006, Pages 2-18

  Kerbis Peterhans, Julian C ^a,b   Singer, Ronald ^c  

^a ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Bone collecting; Hystrix africaeaustralis; Panthera pardus; Papio ursinus; South Africa; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548739044     PISSN: 00381969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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