The stone artefacts from the Vredenburg Peninsula archaeological survey, west coast of South Africa

Southern African Humanities

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-88

  Sadr, Karim ^a   Gribble, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Emu Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeological survey; Holocene; Later stone age; Lithics; Radiocarbon dates; Vredenburg Peninsula; West coast of South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860853620     PISSN: 16815564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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