Strandloping as a Resource-Gathering Strategy in the Cape, South African Holocene Later Stone Age: The Verloren Vlei Record

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 219-237

  Parkington, John ^a   Fisher Jr , John W ^b   Poggenpoel, Cedric ^a   Kyriacou, Katharine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hunter gatherers; shellfish; South Africa; strandloping (beachcombing); Western Cape

Indexed keywords

COAST; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOLOCENE; RESOURCE USE; SHELLFISH; STONE AGE; SUBSISTENCE;

ATLANTIC COAST [SOUTH AFRICA]; ELANDS BAY; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 84904412118     PISSN: 15564894     EISSN: 15561828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2014.881936     Document Type: Article

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