Provenancing silcrete in the Cape coastal zone: Implications forMiddle Stone Age research in South Africa

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 682-688

  Nash, David J ^a,b   Coulson, Sheila ^c   Staurset, Sigrid ^c   Smith, Martin P ^a   Ullyott, J Stewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Africa; Canonical discriminant analysis; Geochemistry; Stone provenancing

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COASTAL ZONE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MESOLITHIC; PROVENANCE; SILCRETE;

SOUTH AFRICA;

AFRICA; ALGORITHM; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CANONICAL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; SEDIMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; STONE PROVENANCING;

AFRICA; CANONICAL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; STONE PROVENANCING;

ALGORITHMS; ARCHAEOLOGY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84885380341     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.07.006     Document Type: Article

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