Barbed Bone Points: Tradition and Continuity in Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa

@article{Yellen1998BarbedBP,
  title={Barbed Bone Points: Tradition and Continuity in Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa},
  author={John E. Yellen},
  journal={African Archaeological Review},
  year={1998},
  volume={15},
  pages={173-198},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:128432105}
}
  • J. Yellen
  • Published 1 September 1998
  • Geology
  • African Archaeological Review
Examination of African barbed bone points recovered from Holocene sites provides a context to interpret three Late Pleistocene occurrences from Katanda and Ishango, Zaire, and White Paintings Shelter… 
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