Cemeteries on a moving frontier: Mortuary practices and the spread of pastoralism from the Sahara into eastern Africa

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology - Tập 51 - Trang 187-205 - 2018
Elizabeth A. Sawchuk1,2, Steven T. Goldstein2, Katherine M. Grillo3, Elisabeth Hildebrand1,4
1Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4364, USA
2Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
3Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
4Turkana Basin Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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