Putslaagte 1 (PL1), the Doring River, and the later Middle Stone Age in southern Africa's Winter Rainfall Zone

Quaternary International

Volumn 350, Issue , 2014, Pages 43-58

  Mackay, Alex ^a,b   Sumner, Alex ^b   Jacobs, Zenobia ^a   Marwick, Ben ^c   Bluff, Kyla ^b   Shaw, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Lithics; Middle Stone Age; MIS 3; OSL; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MESOLITHIC;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 84909581960     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.05.007     Document Type: Article

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