Neutron tomographic assessment of incisions on prehistoric stone slabs: A case study from wonderwerk cave, south africa

Archaeometry

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-13

  Jacobson, L ^a,b   De Beer, F C ^c   Nshimirimana, R ^c   Horwitz, L K ^d   Chazan, M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^c Radiation Science Department   (South Africa)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Banded Ironstone; Earlier Stone Age; Fauresmith; Neutron Tomography; Symbolic Artefacts; Wonderwerk Cave

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; IRONSTONE; PREHISTORIC; SLAB; STONE AGE; TOMOGRAPHY;

FAURESMITH; FREE STATE; NORTHERN CAPE; SOUTH AFRICA; WONDERWERK CAVE;

EID: 84872498641     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2012.00670.x     Document Type: Article

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