Poison arrows and bone utensils in late Pleistocene eastern Africa: evidence from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar

Azania

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 155-177

  Langley, Michelle C ^a   Prendergast, Mary E ^b   Shipton, Ceri ^c,d   Quintana Morales, Eréndira M ^e   Crowther, Alison ^f   Boivin, Nicole ^g,h  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCDONALD INSTITUTE FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d British Institute in Eastern Africa   (Kenya)

^e RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology   (Germany)

Author keywords

awl; bone tube; eastern Africa; osseous technology; poison arrow; Zanzibar

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969622695     PISSN: 0067270X     EISSN: 19455534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2016.1173302     Document Type: Article

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