New Excavations at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Artículo

Autoría:

Backwell, Lucinda Ruth ; d'Errico, Francesco ; Banks, William E. ; de la Peña, Paloma ; Sievers, Christine ; Stratford, Dominic ; Lennox, Sandra J. ; Wojcieszak, Marine ; Bordy, Emese M. ; Bradfield, Justin ; Wadley, Lyn

Fecha:

2018

Editorial y Lugar de Edición:

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

Revista:

Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 43 (pp. 417-436) - ISSN 0093-4690
Taylor and Francis Ltd.

ISSN:

0093-4690

Resumen

New excavations at Border Cave use high-resolution techniques, including FT-IR, for sediment samples and thin sections of micromorphology blocks from stratigraphy. These show that sediments have different moisture regimes, both spatially and chronologically. The site preserves desiccated grass bedding in multiple layers and they, along with seeds, rhizomes, and charcoal, provide a profile of palaeo-vegetation through time. A bushveld vegetation community is implied before 100,000 years ago. The density of lithics varies considerably through time, with high frequencies occurring before 100,000 years ago where a putative MSA 1/Pietersburg Industry was recovered. The highest percentage frequencies of blades and blade fragments were found here. In Members 1 BS and 1 WA, called Early Later Stone Age by Beaumont, we recovered large flakes from multifacial cores. Local rhyolite was the most common rock used for making stone tools, but siliceous minerals were popular in the upper members.

Palabras Clave

LITHIC INDUSTRYLATER STONE AGEGEOARCHAEOLOGYARCHAEOBOTANICAL REMAINSMIDDLE STONE AGE

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