Debating the Central Cattle Pattern: A reply to Badenhorst

South African Archaeological Bulletin

Volumn 65, Issue 192, 2010, Pages 164-174

  Huffman, Thomas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Central Cattle Pattern; Faunal ratios; Forest pattern; Iron age of Southern Africa; Slaughter patterns; Western and Eastern Bantu subsistence

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955020781     PISSN: 00381969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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