Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"stone artefacts"”.
-
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 …
-
Regions and resources
… system for classifying, recording and analysing stone artefacts was developed in order to compare the artefact assemblages within and among the sample areas. The results of the survey showed that the main determinants of artefact morphology were the material type, logistics of access and …
-
Regions and resources
… system for classifying, recording and analysing stone artefacts was developed in order to compare the artefact assemblages within and among the sample areas. The results of the survey showed that the main determinants of artefact morphology were the material type, logistics of access and …
-
Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape, South Africa
… 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 spatially …
-
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 …
-
A social life for later lithics : a technological and contextual analysis of later Bronze and Earliest Iron Age flintworking in East Anglia, England
… in British later Bronze and Iron Age chipped stone assemblages remain seriously underdevelepedd~e to both the scale of previous research and common preconceptions about the crudity of these assemblages. At the same time, it is argued that assemblages of both periods have been consistently …
-
An archaeological re-investigation of the Mulka's Cave Aboriginal rock art site, near Hyden, Southwestern Australia
… in the cave in 1988 yielded 210 mainly quartz artefacts assignable to the Australian Small Tool phase and a radiocarbon date of 420 ± 50 BP from just below the lowest artefact found. The artwork was recorded in detail in 2004. The recorder considered the radiocarbon date to be 'anomalously …
-
The later stone age in Southern Cape, South Africa
… excavated between 1970 and 1979. Nearly 225 000 stone artefacts from the Later Stone Age sequence dating within the last 20 000 years are described from these three sites and are related to micro- and macroevolutionary changes at a regional and sub-continental level to provide a model for change …
-
Ανασύνθεση παλαιοπεριβάλλοντος σε παράκτιες γεωμορφές της νότιας Κύπρου με την χρήση τεχνικών φωταύγειας
… used to date burned minerals from archaeological artefacts (Thermoluminescence (TL) method). However, advancements of this technique led to the development, of the optical dating method (usually referred to as Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL)) which is now applied to sediments from various …