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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Klasies River"”.
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Marine fish exploitation during the middle and later Stone Age of South Africa
… relatively high numbers: Blombos Cave (BBC) and Klasies River main site (KR). Marine fish exploitation is considered by some researchers as a marker of modern human behaviour, requiring cognitive and technological capacities thought to have only appeared after 50 000 years ago, during the Later …
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In the human past, is the perennial consumption of starch a deep or shallow phenomenon?
… evolution. Based on botanical evidence from Klasies River and Blombos Caves, among the earliest human Middle Stone Age (MSA) occupation sites of South Africa, this thesis makes three key arguments: firstly that cooked roots and tubers provided a high quality starch diet for MSA …
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A quantitative comparison of the Howiesons Poort lithic assemblage from Kathu Pan 6 in the Northern Cape with other Howiesons Poort assemblages in Southern Africa
… KP6 and other sites, namely Klipdrift Shelter, Klasies River Mouth, and Pinnacle Point 5-6, will allow me to characterize geographical variability in the HP and identify possible explanations for this variability, including different foraging and mobility strategies in different environments …
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Coastal resources and nutrition among Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers in the Southwestern Cape
… to the Last Interglacial (120 000 years ago) at Klasies River Mouth, Blombos Cave, Hoedjiespunt and Sea Harvest, or earlier (164 000 years ago) at Pinnacle Point. The incorporation of marine foods into the diet is one of several forms of innovative behaviour characteristic of the Middle Stone …