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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Robberg"”.
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The reinvestigation of Hoffman's/Robberg cave - the artefactual and shellfish assemblages, 2007
… documents the re-investigation of Hoffman's/Robberg Cave, a little known site located on the Robberg Peninsula near Plettenberg Bay on the southern Cape coast of South Africa. Previous excavations carried out at the site early in the twentieth century and again in the late 1950s are scantily …
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The role of seals in coastal hunter-gatherer lifeways at Robberg, South Africa
… the 2007/2008 excavations at nearby Hoffmans/Robberg Cave (HRC). Body part representation and frequency, age distribution and bone modification have been documented to determine the role of seals in the lifeways of hunter-gatherers and pastoralists at Robberg throughout the Holocene. The age …
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Investigation of possible dietary differences between the inhabitants of the Robberg/Plettenberg Bay and Matjes River Rock Shelter in the later Stone Age : an isotopic approach
… existed between Later Stone Age people buried at Robberg/Plettenberg Bay and Matjes River Rock Shelter. Since isotopic values of marine foods from this area had not previously been measured, the first step was to sample shellfish and Arctocephalus pusillus (Cape Fur seals), representing the lower …
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A comparison of hunter-gatherer material culture from Matjes River Rock Shelter and Nelson Bay Cave
… stable isotope values of human skeletons from Robberg/Plettenberg Bay and Matjes River Rock Shelter between 4500 and 2000 B.P. After 2000 B.P. the introduction of pastoral subsistence in the area changed existing modes of production in such a way as to alter Ձ15N values. The two major excavated …
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The terminal pleistocene of Klipfonteinrand rock shelter in the Cederberg
… assemblage, with a distinctive silcrete-rich Robberg-like industry during the period 22.3 - 16.3 cal kyr BP, categorised by micro-bladelets and bipolar cores. Ostrich eggshell fragments undergo variation in thickness in relation to variation in environmental and climatic changes, and also …
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The later stone age in Southern Cape, South Africa
… of relative stasis have been labelled the Robberg, Albany and Wilton industries. The content, dating and evidence for subsistence during the Later Stone Age south of the Zambesi is reviewed from several hundred dated horizons at over 160 sites and although there is some spatial variability, …
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Variability in the diet of cape fur seals and their interaction with fisheries off the South African coast, 2010-2019
… colonies from Kleinsee (29°39' S, 17°04' E) to Robberg Ledges (34º03' S, 23º22' E). The colonies were divided into three geographical regions: St Helena Bay, Saldanha Bay to Cape Agulhas, and east of Cape Agulhas. Potential competition for prey fish between the Cape fur seal and fishery catches …