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Changing fortunes: 150 years of San hunter-gatherer history in the Natal Drakensberg, South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Aron D. Mazel
Aron D. Mazel*
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Department of Archaeology, Natal Museum, P. Bag 9070. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 3200
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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 252 , September 1992 , pp. 758 - 767
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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