Shona ethnography and Iron Age burials

Journal of African Archaeology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 237-246

  Huffman, Thomas N ^a   Murimbika, McEdward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Burial patterns; Central cattle pattern; Iron age; Shona cosmology; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949489687     PISSN: 16121651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3213/1612-1651-100012     Document Type: Article

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