South Africa; Grassland Biome; Middle & Later Stone Age; hunter-gatherer behaviours; palaeoenvironment; rock art; lithic technology
Abstract :
[en] Rose Cottage Cave is widely recognised as a key sequence for the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age in the southern African central interior, with its unique palaeoenvironmental and chronocultural archive spanning a semi-continuous record from the Late Pleistocene to the 19th century. Building on important previous research, new excavations will extend our knowledge concerning technological systems, landscape use, human-environment interactions, as well as site formation and the linkages between these parameters in a regional context. Here we report on preliminary insights from the recent fieldwork and provide an overview of future directions.
Disciplines :
Archaeology
Author, co-author :
Schmid, Viola C.
Wadley, Lyn
Brandl, Michael
Guillemard, Iris
Rhodes, Sara E.
Taipale, Noora ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Unités de recherche interfacultaires > Art, Archéologie et Patrimoine (AAP) ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences historiques > TraceoLab
Witelson, David M.
Börner, Mario
Cnuts, Dries ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Unités de recherche interfacultaires > Art, Archéologie et Patrimoine (AAP) ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences historiques > TraceoLab
Hodgskiss, Tammy
Murungi, May
Nigst, Philip R.
Porraz, Guillaume
Puech, Elysandre
Rots, Veerle ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Unités de recherche interfacultaires > Art, Archéologie et Patrimoine (AAP) ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences historiques > TraceoLab
