Animal exploitation strategies during the South African Middle Stone Age: Howiesons Poort and post-Howiesons Poort fauna from Sibudu Cave

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 886-898

  Clark, Jamie L ^a   Plug, Ina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Behavioral variability; Human behavioral evolution; Late Pleistocene; Paleoenvironment; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPLOITATION; FAUNA; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MESOLITHIC; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SUBSISTENCE;

AFRICA; KWAZULU-NATAL; SIBUDU CAVE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; MAMMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 43449124111     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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