[책][B] The archaeology of southern Africa

P Mitchell - 2024 - books.google.com
Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

On the origins and significance of Pleistocene coastal resource use in southern Africa with particular reference to shellfish gathering

A Jerardino - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2016 - Elsevier
The search for human origins in Africa has partly narrowed down to probing into the origins
of the modern human lineage and the identification of a set of behaviours that characterises …

Coalescence and fragmentation in the late Pleistocene archaeology of southernmost Africa

A Mackay, BA Stewart, BM Chase - Journal of human evolution, 2014 - Elsevier
The later Pleistocene archaeological record of southernmost Africa encompasses several
Middle Stone Age industries and the transition to the Later Stone Age. Through this period …

Coastal palaeoenvironments and hunter-gatherer plant-use at Waterfall Bluff rock shelter in Mpondoland (South Africa) from MIS 3 to the Early Holocene

I Esteban, MK Bamford, A House, CS Miller… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Waterfall Bluff, in Eastern Mpondoland (Eastern Cape Province, South Africa), is a
recently excavated archaeological site with deposits spanning Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3 …

The transition to foraging for dense and predictable resources and its impact on the evolution of modern humans

CW Marean - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Scientists have identified a series of milestones in the evolution of the human food quest that
are anticipated to have had far-reaching impacts on biological, behavioural and cultural …

The emergence, spread, and termination of the Early Later Stone Age event in South Africa and southern Namibia

CB Bousman, JS Brink - Quaternary International, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper provides an interpretation of the chronology of the Early Later Stone Age (Early
LSA) in South Africa and Southern Namibia. The Early LSA tradition first appears in Africa at …

A marine isotope stage 13 Acheulian sequence from the Amanzi Springs area 2 deep sounding excavation, Eastern Cape, South Africa

MV Caruana, CG Wilson, LJ Arnold… - Journal of Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Renewed research at Amanzi Springs has increased resolution on the timing and
technology of the Acheulian industry in South Africa. The archeology from the Area 1 spring …

An evolutionary perspective on coastal adaptations by modern humans during the Middle Stone Age of Africa

M Will, AW Kandel, K Kyriacou, NJ Conard - Quaternary International, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Middle Stone Age (MSA) of Africa documents the earliest and longest record of
marine resource use and coastal settlements by modern humans. Here, we provide a long …

Follow the Senqu: Maloti-Drakensberg paleoenvironments and implications for early human dispersals into mountain systems

BA Stewart, AG Parker, G Dewar, MW Morley… - Africa from MIS 6-2 …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains are southern Africa's highest and give rise to
South Africa's largest river, the Orange-Senqu. At Melikane Rockshelter in highland Lesotho …

Modern soil phytolith assemblages used as proxies for Paleoscape reconstruction on the south coast of South Africa

I Esteban, JC De Vynck, E Singels, J Vlok… - Quaternary …, 2017 - Elsevier
South Africa continues to receive substantial attention from scholars researching modern
human origins. The importance of this region lies in the many caves and rock shelters …