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A history in paint and stone from Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sven Ouzman  and
Lyn Wadley
Sven Ouzman
Affiliation:
Department of Rock Art, National Museum, PO Box 266, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa. E-mail: rockart@internext.co.za
Lyn Wadley
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of the Witwatersrand, PO Wits, 2050, South Africa. E-mail: 107lyw@cosmos.wits.ac.za
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In South Africa, as in so many regions, the world of dirt archaeology in shelter floors and of rock art on shelter walls, have also been rather separate as domains of study. In research at Rose Cottage Cave, bridges are being made to link both strands of evidence of the forager social strategies from which both derive.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 272 , June 1997 , pp. 386 - 404
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