The Use of Space in the Late Middle Stone Age of Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa: Was There a Shift to Modern Behavior?

Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 279-294

  Wadley, Lyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Deep Past; Early Hominid; Koobi Forum; Lithic Assemblage; Rock Shelter

Indexed keywords

EID: 85118621785     PISSN: 15682722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-24661-4_15     Document Type: Chapter

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