The Matjes River Rock Shelter: A description of the skeletal assemblage

South African Archaeological Bulletin

Volumn 63, Issue 187, 2008, Pages 61-68

  L'Abbé, Ericka N ^a   Loots, Marius ^a   Keough, Natalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

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