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RELATIVE TIME PERIOD: Follows the Southern and Eastern Africa Middle Stone Age, precedes the Wilton tradition in the Cape region, the East African Neolithic tradition in East Africa, and the South African Iron Age in the rest of the area.
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Peregrine, P.N. (2001). Southern and Eastern Africa Later Stone Age. In: Peregrine, P.N., Ember, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Prehistory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1193-9_21
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