Trends and traps in the reconstruction of early herding societies in southern Africa

Southern African Humanities

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-6

  Fauvelle Aymar, François Xavier ^a   Sadr, Karim ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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