Two disparate instances of healed cranial trauma from the later stone age of South Africa

South African Archaeological Bulletin

Volumn 67, Issue 196, 2012, Pages 256-261

  Pfeiffer, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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