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The archaeology of the Phuthiatsana-ea-Thaba Bosiu Basin, Lesotho, southern Africa: changes in Later Stone Age regional demography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

Peter Mitchell
Peter Mitchell*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter, Dyfed, SA48 7ED, Wales
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Abstract

Field survey of an unexplored zone of southern Africa enlarges and develops knowledge of the region's prehistory.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 258 , March 1994 , pp. 83 - 96
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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