Nuts for dinner Cladium mariscus in the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 213-218

  Sievers, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cladium mariscus; Middle Stone Age; Plant food; Sedge nutlets and rhizomes; Sibudu Cave

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936867557     PISSN: 0035919X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0035919X.2014.996919     Document Type: Conference Paper

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