Sheltered from change: Hunter-gatherer occupation of Balerno Main Shelter, Shashe-Limpopo confluence area, South Africa

Southern African Humanities

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 249-284

  Van Doornum, Bronwen ^a,b  

^a NATAL MUSEUM   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Balerno Main Shelter; Contact; Farmer; Hunter gatherer; Interaction; Later Stone Age; Limpopo Province; Middle Iron Age; Shashe Limpopo; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958105430     PISSN: 16815564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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