Research Catalog

Title

Catalogue of Stone Age artefacts from Southern Africa in the British Museum / Peter Mitchell with contributions by Alison Roberts, Alan Cohen and Karen Perkins.

Author

Mitchell, Peter, 1962-

Publication

London : British Museum, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Roberts, A. J. (Alison J.)
• Cohen, Alan, 1935-
• Perkins, Karen
• British Museum

Description

vi, 234 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

Occasional paper / the British Museum, 0142-4815 ; no. 108

Uniform Title

Occasional paper (British Museum) no.108.

Subject

• British Museum > Catalogs
• Stone age > Africa, Southern
• Stone implements > Africa, Southern > Catalogs
• Stone age > Africa, Southern > Catalogs
• Tools, Prehistoric > Africa, Southern > Catalogs
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Africa, Southern > Catalogs
• Africa, Southern > Antiquities > Catalogs

Genre/Form

Catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction and Geographical background -- 2. Southern African Archaeology and its changing relationship with Britain -- 3. History and contemporary significance of the collections -- 4. Terminology and typology -- 5. Gazeteer of the Southern African stone age collections in the British museum -- APPENDIX 1. Southern African stone age collections in the department of ethnography of the British museum -- APPENDIX 2. Other African stone age archaeological collections in The British museum -- APPENDIX 3. Stone age archaeological collections from Southern Africa in other museums in the United Kingdom -- APPENDIX 4. Individual collectors represented in the British museum Southern African stone age archaeological collections

ISBN

0861591089

OCLC

• 50580931
• SCSB-10496152

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library