Renewed Geoarchaeological Investigations of Mwanganda's Village (Elephant Butchery Site), Karonga, Malawi

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 98-120

  Wright, David K ^a   Thompson, Jessica ^b   Mackay, Alex ^c   Welling, Menno ^d   Forman, Steven L ^e   Price, Gilbert ^b   Zhao, Jian xin ^b   Cohen, Andrew S ^f   Malijani, Oris ^g   Gomani Chindebvu, Elizabeth ^g  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d African Heritage Ltd   (Malawi)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^f University of Arizona   (United States)

^g Tourism House   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; COLONIZATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; EXPLOITATION; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; HUNTER-GATHERER; LAKE LEVEL; MESOLITHIC; RIFT ZONE; RIPARIAN ZONE;

KENYA; MALAWI; RIFT VALLEY;

EID: 84893519596     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21469     Document Type: Article

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