The Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: Temporal and spatial variation in an extraordinary extinct ecosystem of the Pleistocene of the Cape Floristic Region

CW Marean, RM Cowling, J Franklin - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
At the height of its extent, during strong glacials, the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (PAP, south coast
of South Africa) was the size of Ireland, sometimes doubling the size of the extant Cape …

Describing a drowned Pleistocene ecosystem: last Glacial Maximum vegetation reconstruction of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain

RM Cowling, AJ Potts, J Franklin, GF Midgley… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pleistocene ecosystems provided the stage for modern human emergence. Terrestrial
vegetation communities structure resources for human foragers, providing plant food, wood …

[LIBRO][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 …

New Blombos Cave evidence supports a multistep evolutionary scenario for the culturalization of the human body

F d'Errico, KL van Niekerk, L Geis… - Journal of Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
The emergence of technologies to culturally modify the appearance of the human body is a
debated issue, with earliest evidence consisting of perforated marine shells dated between …

The chronological, sedimentary and environmental context for the archaeological deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa

Z Jacobs, BG Jones, HC Cawthra… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The site of Blombos Cave (BBC) is well known for archaeological remains that have
advanced our understanding of the development of modern human behaviour during the …

Pleistocene vertebrate tracksites on the Cape south coast of South Africa and their potential palaeoecological implications

CW Helm, HC Cawthra, RM Cowling… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Body fossil remains usually provide the main palaeontological resource for
palaeoecological studies. Ichnology has the capacity to independently complement such …

Differential sampling in the assessment of conservation and biodiversity merit: a comparison of the seagrass macrofauna in three nearby South African estuaries

RSK Barnes, JL Seath, CJ Arendse - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2024 - Springer
To what extent is the relative biodiversity of some flagship conservation sites a result of
differential attention? Knysna estuarine bay is the topmost ranked South African estuary for …

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 …

Large mammals of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain showed resilience to extreme climate change but vulnerability to modern human impacts

JA Venter, CF Brooke, CW Marean, H Fritz… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent evidence indicates that the now submerged continental shelf, the Palaeo-Agulhas
Plain (PAP), formed a novel ecosystem during periods of low sea level. This landscape …

[HTML][HTML] Continuous vegetation record of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa) covering the past 300 000 years (IODP U1479)

LM Dupont, X Zhao, C Charles, JT Faith… - Climate of the …, 2022 - cp.copernicus.org
Abstract The Greater Cape Floristic Region (GCFR) of South Africa is a biodiversity hotspot
of global significance, and its archeological record has substantially contributed to the …