Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 13214-13219

  D'Errico, Francesco ^a,b   Backwell, Lucinda ^c   Villa, Paola ^a,c,d   Degano, Ilaria ^e   Lucejko, Jeannette J ^e   Bamford, Marion K ^c   Higham, Thomas F G ^f   Colombini, Maria Perla ^e   Beaumont, Peter B ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g McGregor Museum   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bone artifacts; Chemical analysis; Modernity; Wooden artifacts

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; ORGANIC MATTER; RICINOLEIC ACID;

ARROWHEAD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CAVE; EUPHORBIA; ORNAMENTAL SPECIES; OSTRICH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE AND BONES; CAVES; CULTURE; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84865175031     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204213109     Document Type: Article

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