Unsettled times: Shaded polychrome paintings and hunter-gatherer history in the southeastern mountains of southern Africa

Southern African Humanities

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-115

  Mazel, Aron D ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drakensberg; Eland; Farmers; Hunter gatherers; Rock art; Shaded polychrome

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954987793     PISSN: 16815564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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