Evidence for Earlier Stone Age 'coastal use': The site of Dungo IV, Benguela Province, Angola

I Mesfin, MH Benjamim, AE Lebatard, T Saos… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The relationship between Earlier Stone Age (ESA) hominins and the southern African
coastal environment has been poorly investigated, despite the high concentration of open …

A techno-functional analysis of Acheulean backed knives from Wonderboom, South Africa

MV Caruana, MG Lotter, M Lombard - Journal of Field Archaeology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We present the first techno-functional examination of backed knives from the southern
African Acheulean. Our results suggest that they were opportunistically produced, although …

A new approach to quantifying raw material selectivity in the African Acheulean: perspectives from Angola and South Africa

I Mesfin, MG Lotter, MH Benjamim - Journal of African Archaeology, 2021 - brill.com
In southern Africa, the use of gravel outcrops has been recorded at a range of Earlier Stone
Age sites, and this raises questions about the diversity of raw material sourcing practices …

The large cutting tools from Wonderboom, South Africa

MG Lotter, MV Caruana, M Lombard - Lithic Technology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Wonderboom remains largely excluded from discussions about the Earlier Stone Age of
southern Africa, despite having one of the largest Acheulean assemblages for the region …

Cosmogenic nuclide burial dating at Penhill Farm: An Earlier Stone Age Acheulean locality in the lower Sundays River Valley, South Africa

MG Lotter, K Kuman, DE Granger - Quaternary Geochronology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Penhill Farm is an Earlier Stone Age (ESA) Acheulean archaeological site located
within the southeastern Cape coastal region of South Africa. Although ESA artifacts have …

Wonderboompoort, South Africa: A natural game funnel for meat harvesting during the later Acheulean

M Lombard, MG Lotter, MV Caruana - Journal of Archaeological Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract We revisit Wonderboompoort, South Africa, in terms of its potential to have served
as a natural game funnel during the Pleistocene later Acheulean. The geological and …

Comparing morphological variability in handaxes from Penhill Farm and Amanzi Springs, Eastern Cape, South Africa

M Caruana, MG Lotter - Southern African Field Archaeology, 2022 - journals.uj.ac.za
Recent excavations at Penhill Farm and Amanzi Springs have reinvigorated interest in the
Acheulean archaeological record of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. While this …

Exploring core reduction preferences at Penhill Farm, lower Sundays River Valley, South Africa

MG Lotter, MV Caruana - South African Archaeological Bulletin, 2021 - search.informit.org
Sites within the lower Sundays River Valley are hel** to characterise the Acheulean for
the south-eastern Cape coastal region of South Africa, primarily through investigations at …

Final piece (s) of the puzzle: the remaining artefacts at Penhill Farm, South Africa, and their significance for understanding lithic production

MG Lotter - South African Archaeological Bulletin, 2022 - search.informit.org
Penhill Farm is one of three newly reported Sundays River Valley Acheulean sites and
collectively, with sites Atmar and Bernol Farms, is pushing back our understanding of Earlier …

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

L Wadley, W Biemond, G Laue, C Sievers… - Southern African …, 2023 - journals.uj.ac.za
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 …