Diachronic change within the Still Bay at Blombos Cave, South Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Archer, Will ^a   Gunz, Philipp ^a   Van Niekerk, Karen L ^b   Henshilwood, Christopher S ^b,c   McPherron, Shannon P ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CAVE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARDIZATION; STONE AGE; ARCHEOLOGY; BAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HISTORY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS; WEAPON;

MINERAL;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BAYS; CAVES; CULTURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MINERALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME FACTORS; WEAPONS;

EID: 84940055265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132428     Document Type: Article

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