Fact or fiction? Behavioural and technological reversal after 60 ka in Southern Africa

South African Archaeological Bulletin

Volumn 65, Issue 192, 2010, Pages 224-228

  Lombard, Marlize ^a   Parsons, Isabelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

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