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Filling in the gaps and testing past scenarios on the central westcoast: hunter-gatherer subsistence and mobility at 'deurspring 16' shell midden, Lamberts Bay, South Africa
(South African Archaeological Soc, 2016)
This paper presents the first detailed report on mid-Holocene faunal and artefactual observations from Deurspring 16 (DSP16) shell midden situated on the central West Coast of South Africa. DSP16 also yielded late Holocene ...
New evidence of bone tool use by Early Pleistocene hominins from Cooper's D, Bloubank Valley, South Africa
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021-10)
Bone tool-use by Early Pleistocene hominins is at the centre of debates in human evolution. It is especially the case in South Africa, where 102 bone tools have been described from four Early Stone Age archaeological sites, ...
The Comings and Goings of Sheep and Pottery in the Coastal Desert of Namaqualand, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-03)
This paper evaluates chronological trends in the presence and absence of domestic animal bone (sheep, goat, and cattle) and pottery in Namaqualand, the proposed gateway to the rest of South Africa for early herders or ...
Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020-08)
Early plant use is seldom described in the archaeological record because of poor preservation. We report the discovery of grass bedding used to create comfortable areas for sleeping and working by people who lived in Border ...
Cultural diversity during the last 2000 years in southern AfricaDiversidad cultural durante los últimos 2000 años en África del Sur
(Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Centro de Estudios Sobre Diversidad Cultural, 2018)
The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave
(Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2018-04)
The bowand arrowis thought to be a unique development of our species, signalling higherlevel cognitive functioning. How this technology originated and how we identify archaeological evidence for it are subjects of ongoing ...
Climate change, migrations, and the peopling of sine-Saloum mangroves (Senegal) in the past 6000 years
(Elsevier, 2022)
We present a reconstruction of human demography and shell fishing activity in the Sine-Saloum mangrove Delta (Senegal) in the past 6000 years using the summed probability density (SPD) of radiocarbon dates in archaeological ...
Expansão fenício-púnica no Mediterrâneo central e ocidental: realidades próximas e distintas.
(Rio de Janeiro, 2015-09)
Apresentam-se novos desenvolvimentos teóricos e metodológicos no âmbito da Arqueologia Mediterrânica em geral e Arqueologia Fenício-Púnica em particular nos quais as concepções teóricas são confrontadas com a documentação ...
Modern drought conditions in western Sahel unprecedented in the past 1600 years
(Springer, 2019)
As climate model uncertainties remain very large for future rainfall in the Sahel, a multi-centennial perspective is required to assess the situation of current Sahel climate in the context of global warming. We present ...