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45000 years of hunter-gatherer history as seen from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter
Bibliography: pages 124-137.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/22299 45000 years of hunter-gatherer history as seen from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter Kaplan, Jonathan Michael Parkington, John Archaeology Bibliography: pages 124-137. Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in Natal was excavated in 1985. A long and detailed sequence of stone artefacts was recovered. These artefacts covered the time range from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) to the Later Stone Age (LSA). The excavations generated important information on the MSA, MSA/LSA transition, the Late Pleistocene early microlithic bladelet assemblages, and the relationship between hunter-gatherers and farmers between AD 400-AD 800. The primary aim of this thesis is to describe the excavation and the results, showing how Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter contributes to a broader understanding of the southern African MSA and LSA technological evolution. The stone artefact sequence, animal and plant remains, worked bone tools, beads, pottery and ochre finds are described. Evidence is presented which shows that the change from the MSA to the beginning of the LSA .took place between 35 000 BP and 20 000 BP, while a true LSA industry occurred closer to 20 000 BP. No technological boundary exists between the MSA and the LSA: rather change was a gradual process beginning· in the MSA. The bladelet-rich assemblages recovered from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter are the first of their kind to be positively identified in Natal. Pre-dating 18 000 BP and post-dating 12 000 BP, they show that assemblages of this nature were systematically produced earlier and later in Natal, than elsewhere in southern Africa. The metrical results for bladelet cores and bladelets show that there is a progressive decrease in the mean length sizes of. these artefacts from the MSA to the LSA, as well as within the LSA sequence. statistics show that the model for gradual change is corroborated. These results have significant implications for our understanding of the culture-history sequence in southern Africa. The results also raise questions regarding the nature of MSA and MSA/LSA assemblages, and the origins of the early microlithic assemblages of the southern African LSA. 2016-10-25T13:36:05Z 2016-10-25T13:36:05Z 1989 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22299 eng application/pdf Department of Archaeology Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
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| title | 45000 years of hunter-gatherer history as seen from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter |
| title_full | 45000 years of hunter-gatherer history as seen from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter |
| title_fullStr | 45000 years of hunter-gatherer history as seen from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter |
| title_full_unstemmed | 45000 years of hunter-gatherer history as seen from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter |
| title_short | 45000 years of hunter-gatherer history as seen from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter |
| title_sort | 45000 years of hunter gatherer history as seen from umhlatuzana rock shelter |
| topic | Archaeology |
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