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A Critical Inventory and Associated Chronology of the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age in Northwest Africa

Journal of Open Archaeology Data
The study of human evolution and cultural patterns relies on empirical evidence provided by the archaeological record. Accessing dependable archaeological data from scholarly publications can often be challenging due to the variability in site ...
Solène Boisard, Eslem Ben Arous
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Correction: The Later Stone Age Calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: Morphology and Chronology.

PLoS ONE, 2013
Katerina Harvati, Chris Stringer, Rainer Grün, Maxime Aubert, Philip Allsworth-Jones, Caleb Adebayo Folorunso   +5 more
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A preliminary report of the excavation at Spitzkloof D rockshelter, Namaqualand, South Africa

Southern African Field Archaeology, 2023
This paper describes the first excavations of Spitzkloof D rockshelter located in the semi-arid desert of northern Namaqualand, South Africa. The site is in a dry river valley 30 km south of the Orange River, which currently acts as a lifeline for ...
Courtneay Hopper, Genevieve Dewar
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Coastal adaptations on the eastern seaboard of South Africa during the Pleistocene and Holocene? Current evidence and future perspectives from archaeology and marine geology

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022
The use of marine resources and the settlement of coastal settlements may have influenced the bio-cultural evolution and dispersal of Pleistocene Homo sapiens in Africa.
Manuel Will, Gregor D. Bader, Christian Sommer, Andrew Cooper, Andrew Cooper, Andrew Green, Andrew Green   +6 more
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Maternal Relationships among Ancient and Modern Southern African Sheep: Newly Discovered Mitochondrial Haplogroups

Biology, 2022
We investigated the genetic diversity and historic relationships among southern African sheep as well as the relationships between them and sheep outside the continent by sourcing both archaeological and modern sheep samples. Archaeological sheep samples
K. Ann Horsburgh, Devri B. Beckett, Anna L. Gosling   +2 more
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Large mammal exploitation during the c. 14–11 ka Oakhurst techno-complex at Klipdrift Cave, South Africa

South African Journal of Science, 2020
Understanding how hunter-gatherers adapted to the marked environmental changes of the last glacialinterglacial transition (~18 to 11.7 ka cal. BP) remains a key question for archaeologists.
Emmanuel Discamps, Christopher S. Henshilwood, Karen L. van Niekerk   +2 more
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Systematic Ancient DNA Species Identification Fails to Find Late Holocene Domesticated Cattle in Southern Africa

Biology, 2020
Establishing robust temporal control of the arrival of domesticated stock and the associated husbandry skills and lifeways in Southern Africa remains frustrated by the osteological similarities between domestic stock and wild endemic fauna. We report the
K. Ann Horsburgh, Anna L. Gosling
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70 years later – New research at Holley Shelter, a Middle and Later Stone Age site in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

South African Journal of Science, 2022
In 1952, Gordon Cramb published the first report on his excavations at Holley Shelter, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Although Cramb’s work implied organic preservation associated with a unique stone tool assemblage from a Middle Stone Age (MSA ...
Gregor D. Bader, Manuel Will
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The role of cryptotephra in refining the chronology of Late Pleistocene human evolution and cultural change in North Africa [PDF]

, 2015
© 2014.Sites in North Africa hold key information for dating the presence of Homo sapiens and the distribution of Middle Stone Age (MSA), Middle Palaeolithic (MP) and Later Stone Age (LSA) cultural activity in the Late Pleistocene.
Albert, PG, Barton, RNE, Bouzouggar, A, Collcutt, SN, Ditchfield, P, Farr, L, Kindermann, K, Lane, CS, Oh, A, Ottolini, L, Smith, VC, Van Peer, P, White, D   +12 more
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Making the Invisible Stratigraphy Visible: A Grid-Based, Multi-Proxy Geoarchaeological Study of Umhlatuzana Rockshelter, South Africa

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021
Umhlatuzana rockshelter is an archaeological site with an occupational record covering the Middle Stone Age, Later Stone Age, and Iron Age. The presence of both Middle and Later Stone Age assemblages makes Umhlatuzana the ideal location for the study of ...
Femke H. Reidsma, Irini Sifogeorgaki, Ada Dinckal, Hans Huisman, Hans Huisman, Mark J. Sier, Mark J. Sier, Bertil van Os, Gerrit L. Dusseldorp, Gerrit L. Dusseldorp   +9 more
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