Limpet Gathering Strategies in the Later Stone Age Along the Cape West Coast, South Africa

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 91-107

  Parkington, John ^a   Fisher, John W ^b   Kyriacou, Katharine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hunter gatherers; shellfish; South Africa; spatial variation; Western Cape

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; POPULATION SIZE; SHELLFISH; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STONE AGE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTH AFRICA;

PATELLIDAE;

EID: 84875959041     PISSN: 15564894     EISSN: 15561828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2012.756084     Document Type: Article

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