Exploring the Relationship Between Climate Change and the Decline of the Howieson’s Poort at Sibudu Cave (South Africa)

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789400767652, 2013, Pages 9-18

  Clark, Jamie L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Howieson s Poort; Human behavioral evolution; Later Pleistocene; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016280523     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6766-9_2     Document Type: Chapter

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