A later stone age assemblage from Canteen Kopje, Northern Cape

South African Archaeological Bulletin

Volumn 65, Issue 192, 2010, Pages 204-214

  Forssman, Tim R ^a   Kuman, Kathleen ^a,b   Leader, George M ^a,c   Gibbon, Ryan J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Institute for Human Evolution   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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