The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave
2018/04/01 by Lucinda Backwell, Justin Bradfield, Kristian J. Carlson +4 · 88 citations
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Cave #Flake #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Geology #History #Lithic technology #Medicine #Middle Stone Age #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Stone tool
paper · pdf · doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.11
published in Antiquity 92(362), 289-303 (Cambridge University Press)
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