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New Excavations at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Source :
- Journal of Field Archaeology, Journal of Field Archaeology, Maney Publishing, 2018, 43 (6), pp.417-436. ⟨10.1080/00934690.2018.1504544⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2018.
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Abstract
- New excavations at Border Cave use high-resolution techniques, including FT-IR, for sediment samples and thin sections of micromorphology blocks from stratigraphy. These show that sediments have different moisture regimes, both spatially and chronologically. The site preserves desiccated grass bedding in multiple layers and they, along with seeds, rhizomes, and charcoal, provide a profile of palaeo-vegetation through time. A bushveld vegetation community is implied before 100,000 years ago. The density of lithics varies considerably through time, with high frequencies occurring before 100,000 years ago where a putative MSA 1/Pietersburg Industry was recovered. The highest percentage frequencies of blades and blade fragments were found here. In Members 1 BS and 1 WA, called Early Later Stone Age by Beaumont, we recovered large flakes from multifacial cores. Local rhyolite was the most common rock used for making stone tools, but siliceous minerals were popular in the upper members. Fil: Backwell, Lucinda Ruth. University of the Witwatersrand; Sudáfrica. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán; Argentina Fil: d'Errico, Francesco. Universite de Bordeaux; Francia. University of Bergen; Noruega Fil: Banks, William E.. Universite de Bordeaux; Francia Fil: de la Peña, Paloma. University of the Witwatersrand; Sudáfrica Fil: Sievers, Christine. University of the Witwatersrand; Sudáfrica Fil: Stratford, Dominic. University of the Witwatersrand; Sudáfrica Fil: Lennox, Sandra J.. University of the Witwatersrand; Sudáfrica Fil: Wojcieszak, Marine. University of the Witwatersrand; Sudáfrica Fil: Bordy, Emese M.. University Of Cape Town; Fil: Bradfield, Justin. University of the Witwatersrand; Sudáfrica Fil: Wadley, Lyn. University of the Witwatersrand; Sudáfrica
- Subjects :
- 010506 paleontology
Archeology
Historia y Arqueología
Later Stone Age
[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory
01 natural sciences
Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
Cave
LITHIC INDUSTRY
0601 history and archaeology
Middle Stone Age
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
LATER STONE AGE
MIDDLE STONE AGE
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
060102 archaeology
Geoarchaeology
Sediment
ARCHAEOBOTANICAL REMAINS
Excavation
06 humanities and the arts
Archaeology
Stratigraphy
Kwazulu natal
Geology
GEOARCHAEOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00934690
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Field Archaeology, Journal of Field Archaeology, Maney Publishing, 2018, 43 (6), pp.417-436. ⟨10.1080/00934690.2018.1504544⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....45b8dedc0190564fc652f5126b0fe21b