Border Cave and the beginning of the Later Stone Age in South Africa

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

Volumn 109, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 13208-13213

  Villa, Paola ^a,b   Soriano, Sylvain ^b   Tsanova, Tsenka ^c   Degano, Ilaria ^d   Higham, Thomas F G ^e   D'Errico, Francesco ^b,f   Backwell, Lucinda ^g,h   Lucejko, Jeannette J ^d   Colombini, Maria Perla ^d   Beaumont, Peter B ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

ⁱ McGregor Museum   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Gathering equipment; Hafting pitch; Human behavior; Hunting weapons

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; STONE AGE;

ADHESIVENESS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAVES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84865177230     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1202629109     Document Type: Article

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