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Geoarchaeology at Gi, a middle stone age and later stone age site in the Northwest Kalahari

Journal of Archaeological Science, 1983
Abstract Gi with sealed middle stone age and later stone age occurrences is located in the Dobe Valley along the Botswana-Namibia border. The phases of middle stone age settlement were linked to a semiarid streamway during the early Upper Pleistocene. A major humid interval followed, when a large lake was ponded in the Dobe Valley.
Alison S Brooks
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The Pleistocene Later Stone Age south of the Limpopo River

Journal of World Prehistory, 1993
The earliest Later Stone Age (LSA) industries from southern Africa are microlithic and unstandardized and include the bipolar technique. The dating of these industries is controversial and the earliest microlithic industry is said to occur at Border Cave at about 39,000 B.P. By 18,000 B.P.
Lyn Wadley
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Middle and Later Stone Age Symbolism

Utafiti, 2020
Abstract The archaeological remains found in the Mumba rock-shelter in northern Tanzania – where continuous deposits span from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) to the historical period – provide a unique opportunity to study trends in technology and behavioural change of early humans.
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Postural Behaviour of Later Stone Age People in South Africa

The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 2004
Prehistoric human skeletal remains from Later Stone Age archaeological sites, South Africa, were examined for evidence of habitual use of a squatting posture during life. Bony facets that are believed to be associated with habitual squatting were identified on the tali and the proximal tibial condyles of adult bones.
Dewar, Genevieve, Pfeiffer, Susan
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A Comparison of Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age Blades from South Africa

Journal of Field Archaeology, 2008
AbstractThe Middle Stone Age (MSA, ca. 250,000 to 25,000 B.P.) and the Later Stone Age (LSA, ca. 25,000 to 2000 B.P.) provide the cultural backdrops for the evolution of modern humans in Africa. The LSA has been long regarded as the period during which modern forms of behavior were widely adopted. Over the last decade evidence of modern behavior in the
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Ostrich Eggshell Beads in Later Stone Age Contexts

2021
Ostrich eggshell (OES) beads are a common feature of Later Stone Age (LSA) archaeology throughout eastern and southern Africa and have the potential to inform on site use, cultural diversity, social networks, and site formation. However, too often OES bead assemblages have not been recorded or studied in the necessary detail to make meaningful ...
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The significance of pottery in Zambian Later Stone Age contexts

The African Archaeological Review, 1987
Archaeological investigations in the Lunsemfwa Drainage Basin of Zambia have yielded evidence that necessitates modification of current views about the nature of culture contact between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists. Hypotheses of barter, theft or some kind of exchange network between the two communities are not supported.
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The Later Stone Age in sub-Saharan Africa

1982
In sub-Saharan Africa, more especially in the eastern and central areas, the study of Stone Age archaeology was largely inspired by pioneer researchers in South Africa. South Africa was the first, and only major, part of the sub-continent where European colonizers and settlers came into contact with indigenous people who regularly used stone tools.
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The Kiwira Industry and the Later Stone Age of the Nyakyusa Basin

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 1982
The ‘early Late Stone Age’ Industry here described is from an open site in an area of high rainfall in south-western Tanzania. The assemblage, lacking heavy tools, is of particular interest in relation to this environment. Thomas Wynn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado and Thomas Chadderdon is at Iowa State
Thomas Wynn, Thomas Chadderdon
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The Chronology and Significance of Ablation in the Later Stone Age Maghreb

2017
This chapter described the earliest evidence of the systematic practice of ablation. Purposeful removal of the upper central incisors became a widespread practice with the Iberomaurusian of the Later Stone Age in the Maghreb region—the area of current-day northern Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
ISABELLE DE GROOTE, LOUISE T. HUMPHREY
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