Poison arrows and bone utensils in late Pleistocene eastern Africa: evidence from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar
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Langley, Michelle C.; Prendergast, Mary E.; Shipton, Ceri; Quintana Morales, Eréndira M.; Crowther, Alison; Boivin, Nicole
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Most of our current knowledge of late Pleistocene African bone technology is drawn from southern African sites, with recent discoveries indicating that bone- and stone-tipped arrows (propelled by a bow) were in use prior to 60,000 years BP. Integration of archaeological with ethnographic data similarly suggests that hunting with poison-tipped arrows on the African continent has an antiquity of at least 24,000 years. Unfortunately, similar analysis of material from eastern Africa is largely...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2016 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/111858 |
Source: | Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa |
DOI: | 10.1080/0067270X.2016.1173302 |
Access Rights: | Open Access |
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