Characterizing the Late Pleistocene MSA lithic technology of Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Will, Manuel ^a   Bader, Gregor D ^a   Conard, Nicholas J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoecology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DENSITY; EVOLUTION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MESOLITHIC; ROCK; SOUTH AFRICA; SURFACE PROPERTY; TECHNOLOGY; TOOL USE; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; FOSSIL;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; FOSSILS; HUMANS; SOUTH AFRICA; TECHNOLOGY; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84902345167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098359     Document Type: Article

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