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Changing fortunes of Southern African archaeology: comment on A.D. Mazel's ‘history’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Thomas A. Dowson
Thomas A. Dowson*
Affiliation:
Rock Art Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, PO Wits 2050, South Africa
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Abstract

A different vision from southern Africa challenges Mazel's view of the region's archaeology, and of the place for rock art in knowing its history.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 256 , September 1993 , pp. 641 - 644
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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