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70 years later – New research at Holley Shelter, a Middle and Later Stone Age site in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

open access: yesSouth 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
doaj   +1 more source

The role of cryptotephra in refining the chronology of Late Pleistocene human evolution and cultural change in North Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +12 more
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Making the Invisible Stratigraphy Visible: A Grid-Based, Multi-Proxy Geoarchaeological Study of Umhlatuzana Rockshelter, South Africa

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of prehistoric brown earth paleosols under the podzol soils of Exmoor, UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The deforestation of the upland landscapes in southwest Britain during prehistory is an established archaeological narrative, documenting human impacts on the environment and questioning the relationship of prehistoric societies to the upland landscapes ...
Bray, Lee   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

Local churches and the conquest of the North : elite patronage and identity in Saxo-Norman Northumbria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The social implications of the Saxo-Norman transition are particularly intriguing in Northumbria, where Anglian, Scandinavian, and Norman social structures, identities, and traditions of material culture converged.
McClain, A.
core   +1 more source

Woodstock Rocks: From Acheulean to Iron Age in the Waterberg, Limpopo Province, South Africa

open access: yesSouthern African Field Archaeology, 2023
The cliff terrace site, Woodstock Rocks, was exploited occasionally by hominins from the Earlier Stone Age to the Iron Age. A small excavation uncovered an Acheulean quartzite workshop with many flakes, but lacking large cutting tools and without ...
Lyn Wadley   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementasi Pendidikan Akhlak Di Sekolah Dasar Islam Terpadu (Sdit) Al-badr Kecamatan Bangkinang Kabupaten Kampar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We often hear a saying mentions that teaching children at the early stage of their life, it will be like you are writing on a stone. But if you teach someone during his adulthood, it will be such you are writing on water which traces nowhere.
Yusra =, = Nelly
core   +4 more sources

Characterizing evulsion in the Later Stone Age Maghreb: Age, sex and effects on mastication [PDF]

open access: yesQuaternary International, 2016
This paper assesses the earliest evidence for widespread dental modification in Northwest Africa. The intentional modification of teeth has implications for an individual’s appearance, sense of identity and perceived status. The range of modifications reported varies from alterations of shape or color to the complete removal of healthy teeth (evulsion ...
Isabelle De Groote, Louise T. Humphrey
openaire   +1 more source

Stonehenge remodelled [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We are pleased to present the latest account of the sequence of burial and construction at the site of Stonehenge, deduced by its most recent excavators and anchored in time by the application of Bayesian radiocarbon modelling.
Darvill, Timothy   +3 more
core   +1 more source

An updated chronology for Umbeli Belli and its implications for the Middle and Later Stone Ages

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science
We present a series of 12 OSL/IRSL dates that revise and complete the chronology of the important Middle (MSA) and Later Stone Age (LSA) site Umbeli Belli in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. These dates shift the previous radiometric ages thousands of years
Chantal Tribolo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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