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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Rockshelter"”.
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An investigation of temporal change in lithic technology at Grassridge Rockshelter, Eastern Cape South Africa
… the lithic technological change in Grassridge Rockshelter, a multi-component site located in the interior region of the Eastern Cape of South Africa that presents a rich high-resolution stratigraphy that interchanges with periods of hiatuses between the Late Pleistocene (LP) dated to about …
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Fluorine Dating Of Human Bone At The Pre-Columbian Maya Cemetery Of Caves Branch Rockshelter, Belize
… remains from the Maya mortuary site Caves Branch Rockshelter (CBR) in Belize. CBR is a cemetery containing at least 400 burials from the late Preclassic to the Postclassic periods. The intensive use and reuse of the site has disturbed the burial matrices, making it difficult to seriate the …
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Upland Land Use and Intersite Lithic Assemblage Variation Across Two Rockshelter and Three Open-Air Archaeological Sites in Mount Rainier National Park
… Late Holocene period, the Fryingpan and Berkeley Rockshelters, are analyzed using an evolutionary archaeology model to test hypotheses about site-type expectations. Under the existing theoretical model, rockshelter sites on the slopes of Mount Rainier were used for a more limited activity set than …
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An archaeological, anthropological study of the human skeletal remains from the Oakhurst Rockshelter, George, Cape Province, Southern Africa
Osteological and dental analyses have been widely used to outline a graded response to nutritional and physiological stress in human bone. It is argued that agriculturalists and transitional agro/pastoralists are more stressed than the hunter gatherers who preceded t hem. This is evinced by …
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Late Holocene Logistical and Residential Settlement in Interior Santa Rosa Island, California: A Comparative Analysis of Four Rockshelter Sites
… I examine the faunal records from four interior rockshelter sites within the context of late Holocene settlement systems on SRI to investigate how environmental and cultural factors may have contributed to the choices people made regarding how and where to settle, specifically the severe droughts …
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From Turkeys To Tamales: Paleoindian To Preclassic Period Faunal Use At Maya Hak Cab Pek Rockshelter In Southern Belize
… prior to the development of ceramics. Rockshelters with good preservation and stratigraphic deposits can provide excellent contexts for a comparative faunal analysis though time. In February of 2014 the Bladen Paleoindian and Archaic Project (BPAP), directed by Dr. Keith Prufer, began …
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Mapping and Radiocarbon Dating Archaic Period Monuments: La Alberca Structure Complex, Highland Michoacán, Mexico
… dates for the burial in the nearby La Alberca Rockshelter (6650 -3985 cal B.P.). The Central Structure as well as above ground Structures 1 and 5 (labeled <em>Yacata</em>) are buried below a coarse consolidated tephra. Although more weathered, this tephra is similar to the oldest tephra in the …
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Early human social transmission during Marine Isotope Stage 5: a perspective from the Kalahari Basin
… samples studied are from Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter, Kathu Pan 6, Erfkroon, and Florisbad in South Africa, and ≠Gi and White Paintings Rockshelter in Botswana. The results of this study indicate there are many technological similarities across most of the studied sites, including the …
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Reconstructing the late pleistocene palaeoenvironment of the Richtersveld using fossil charcoal
… changes. Recent excavations at Spitzkloof Rockshelter A in the Richtersveld have provided a rare source of palaeoenvironmental data in the form of fossil wood charcoal assemblages that span a sequence from the last glacial maximum (LGM) to ~14 500 yrs BP. The present study analysed the …
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Human Occupation and Changing Environments During the Middle to Later Stone Ages: Soil Micromorphology at the Haua Fteah, Libya
… context of the occupations at the Haua Fteah rockshelter, Libya (one of the key cultural sequences in North Africa), will allow the assessment of environmental controls on the replacement of populations carrying MSA technologies by those with LSA industries, and the analysis of their relative …
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Archaeological investigations in Ulu Kelantan, Peninsular Malaysia
… surveys and excavations in Gua Cha rockshelter produced significant evidence of Hoabinhian, Neolithic and historical remains. Furthermore the area lies well within the Orang Asli territory, the sedentary Temiar and the once foraging Semangs. My research began with a survey of …
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Archaeological investigations in Ulu Kelantan, Peninsular Malaysia
… surveys and excavations in Gua Cha rockshelter produced significant evidence of Hoabinhian, Neolithic and historical remains. Furthermore the area lies well within the Orang Asli territory, the sedentary Temiar and the once foraging Semangs. My research began with a survey of …
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Exploring Prehistoric Technology at the Tràng An Landscape Complex, Ninh Bình Province, Vietnam
… Glacial Maximum at six archaeological cave and rockshelter sites throughout the Tràng An Landscape Complex, Ninh Bình Province, northern Vietnam. Historical analyses of stone tool assemblages from Southeast Asia have relied on cultural-typological methods, which are poorly suited for assemblages …
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Technology, Serial Specialists, and Younger Dryas Cold Adaptation in the Northern Great Basin of North America
… to stone tools. I leverage well-preserved rockshelter records containing perishable tools, subsistence residues, and preserved site structure alongside the regional surface lithic record to explore cold adaptation in the NGB at multiple scales. My results suggest that NGB peoples had a …
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Evaluating the Antiquity and Morphology of Corner-notched Dart Points in the Eastern Great Basin
… Basin sites (Danger Cave and Bonneville Estates Rockshelter) using objective classification methods. I compare the morphologies of Elko points from Middle and Late Holocene deposits in the eastern Great Basin to Elko points from Late Holocene contexts in the central Great Basin. My results …
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The biostratigraphy, palaeoecology and geochemistry of a long lacustrine sequence from NW Greece
… be a result of subsequent tectonic uplift of the rockshelter. In addition, stable isotopic analyses of both the ostracods and the bulk carbonate within the sediments have contributed towards deriving a comprehensive palaeoenvironmental history for the site. Although the study analysed physical, …