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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Middle Stone Age"”.
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The Middle Stone Age fauna from Olieboomspoort: an archaeozoological perspective
… occupation going back possibly to the Earlier Stone Age, but more substantially to the Middle and the Later Stone Age. This site is located in the Waterberg Mountains of Limpopo Province, within the South African Savanna Biome. Archaeological excavations at this site began with the late Revil …
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Coastal resources and nutrition among Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers in the Southwestern Cape
… of marine and terrestrial resources available to Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers in the southwestern Cape, and examines the role of coastal and terrestrial foods in the diets of early modern humans in the region. The collection, consumption and systematic discard of intertidal molluscs by …
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Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape, South Africa
… the origins of modern human behaviour in the Middle Stone Age (MSA), about 300 to 40 ka. Current evidence from excavated, often coastal, cave sites indicates the emergence of complex technological, social and symbolic behaviours at least 100 ka. However, cave sites considered alone give a …
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The sword in the stone : lithic raw material in the Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle Point Site 5-6, southern Cape, South Africa
This thesis presents a description and analysis of the lithic artefacts from the recently excavated site of Pinnacle Point 5-6, Mossel Bay, from a sequence dating between ~50-85ka. PP5-6 has been excavated to the highest contemporary standards, enabling a more detailed analysis of the lithics than …
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Border Cave
… amassed at the time, which suggested that the Middle Stone Age technocomplex of sub-Saharan Africa was substantially older than the ~10-40 Kyr range then envisaged (Klein, 1970). (b) To see if a radiometric age could be deduced for the infant burial (Border Cave 3) found in 1941 (Archaeological …
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Marine fish exploitation during the middle and later Stone Age of South Africa
Marine fish remains are not common in Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites in Africa. There are currently only two known MSA sites with good organic preservation in South Africa that contain marine fish remains in relatively high numbers: Blombos Cave (BBC) and Klasies River main site (KR). Marine fish …
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Investigation the use of oxygen and carbon isotopes and sclerochronology on Turbo sarmaticus and Donax serra for palaeoenvironment reconstruction at Pinnacle Point, South Africa
… commonly retrieved from archaeological assemblages of the South Coast of South Africa. The material analysed for this thesis includes modern and archaeological shells from Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay. Evidence of human occupation of coastal caves here dates as far back as 164 kya. Specimens …
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Ancestral Pharmacopeias: A Paleoethnobotanical Assessment of Plant Use in the Western Free State, South Africa
Excavations of Early Later Stone Age sites at Erfkroon in the Western Free State, South Africa, yielded several partial grinding stones, possibly indicating an increase in the reliance on plant resources and signifying the economic, technological, and social shift from the Middle Stone Age to Later …
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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
Howiesons Poort (HP) lithic assemblages have sparked many debates around their significance It is now widely accepted that the HP forms part of the Middle Stone Age, stratified above the Still Bay (SB) and/or beneath MSA III assemblages, however, reasons for the appearance and disappearance of the …
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Investigating temporal change in Fauresmith technology: Insights from Rooidam 2, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
In southern Africa, stone tool assemblages with both large cutting tools (LCTs) and retouched blanks are ascribed to the Fauresmith Industry, a ‘transitional' industry between the Earlier and Middle Stone Age. ‘Transitional' assemblages are especially relevant for addressing questions concerning …
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Fronteres transitòries: aculturació o innovació. Una aproximació a l’univers simbòlic dels Neandertals
… previs al Plistocè superior europeu i la Middle Stone Age Africana han propiciat un intens debat en la literatura arqueològica reflectit a partir dels elements apareguts en el registre arqueològic de les dues últimes dècades. Presentem en aquest treball un recull de dades arqueològiques …
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A landscape approach to the surface archaeology of the Bos River, Tankwa Karoo, Northern Cape
… human behavioural patterns during the Stone Age, is derived particularly from a robust set of chronological and technological sequences from caves and rock shelters, with some focus on open-air sites. The information gained from shelters cannot be ignored or downplayed, however, they …
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Later Quaternary archaeological sequences in northern Tanzania
… years and allow a new appreciation of the age and cultural associations of archaic Homo sapiens remains, the Eyasi crania, which are older than 150,000 years bp. A standardized typology was formulated and is applied to all lithic assemblages. Results indicate that a Sangoan Industry is …
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45000 years of hunter-gatherer history as seen from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter
… in 1985. A long and detailed sequence of stone artefacts was recovered. These artefacts covered the time range from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) to the Later Stone Age (LSA). The excavations generated important information on the MSA, MSA/LSA transition, the Late Pleistocene early …
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Phytolith Analysis as a Palaeoecological Tool for Reconstructing Mid-to Late-Pleistocene Environments in the Olorgesailie Basin, Kenya
… findings of the Acheulean, Sangoan and Middle Stone Age occupations and most importantly, hominin cranium associated with the Acheulean hand axes. Evidence of past vegetation has hitherto been scarce, because the arid / semi-arid conditions are not conducive for preservation of organic …
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An investigation of ostrich eggshell bead size variability and the introduction of cup morphology
… who create and use them. Originating in the Middle Stone Age (MSA), OES beads are still produced by several African communities. Early investigations of OES beads recovered from archaeological sites provided only rudimentary descriptions. Subsequent research has investigated more advanced …
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In the human past, is the perennial consumption of starch a deep or shallow phenomenon?
… 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 hunter-gatherers from at least 120 thousand years ago in the Cape …
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Human Occupation and Changing Environments During the Middle to Later Stone Ages: Soil Micromorphology at the Haua Fteah, Libya
… potentially controlled movements of late Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Later Stone Age (LSA) modern human populations during Marine Isotope Stages 5–2 (MIS5–2) both within, and out of, Africa. Understanding the environmental context of the occupations at the Haua Fteah rockshelter, Libya (one …
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The role of geophytes in stone age hunter-gatherer subsistence and human evolution in the greater cape floristic region
… evolution. Plants that possess underground storage organs (geophytes) have been put forward as the likely source of starch. Geophytes comprise a large portion of the plant diversity in the Greater Cape Floristic Region (GCFR), where significant archaeological evidence of the evolution of human …
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