Indications of bow and stone-tipped arrow use 64 000 years ago in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Antiquity

Volumn 84, Issue 325, 2010, Pages 635-648

  Lombard, Marlize ^a   Phillipson, Laurel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Bow and arrow; Howiesons Poort; Hunting technology; Lithics; Pleistocene; Residues; Sibudu Cave; Use traces

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649857781     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00100134     Document Type: Review

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