Overview

This monograph makes a significant contribution to answering some long standing questions in the Later Stone Age prehistory of southern Africa and to archaeological methods in general. The Vredenburg Peninsula Survey project originally set out to confirm that the first herders at the south-western Cape were immigrant Khoekhoe-speakers who had migrated from farther north about two thousand years ago. It failed to find evidence to support this hypothesis and instead ended up making a solid contribution to documenting the regional transition from formal, microlithic technology to the informal stone tool repertoire that marks the immediately Pre-Colonial period. It also throws light on another regional question concerning the rise and fall of stone adze technology. Its contribution to survey methodology is of worldwide importance and this is the first time an archaeologist has gambled on dating surface shell on a large scale and it has paid off handsomely. Coastal archaeologists on all continents should take note of this, and be rightly encouraged.

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Author:   Karim Sadr
Publisher:   Africa Magna Verlag
Imprint:   Africa Magna Verlag
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9783937248448

ISBN 10:   3937248447
Pages:   89
Publication Date:   30 August 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I-Introduction 1. The Global Issues 2. The Local Issues II - Background 1. Geography 2. Geology 3. Soils 4. Water 5. Flora 6. Written History 7. First European Settlers on the Vredenburg Peninsula 8. VP Archaeology III - Methods 1. Survey 2. Analyses 3. Dating 4. Double-dated Sites 5. Ceramic Styles IV - The Surveyed Sites 1. Occupation Through Time 2. Site Location 3. Depth of Deposits 4. Density of Finds 5. Site Size 6. Summary V - Lithics 1. Typology Flakes, chunks and chips Cores Utilised pieces Formal tools 2. Raw Materials Quartz Silcrete, Granite Quartzite, Shales Cryptocrystalline silicates (CCS) Black igneous rock Calcrete Sandstone, Ironstone Glass Unidentified raw material 3. Grooved Stones 4. Ochre 5. Discussion and Conclusion VI - Marine Shell 1. The Marine Shells on the VP Sites 2. δ13C Isotopes and Palaeoclimates 3. The Geography of Visually Dominant Shell Species 4. Calcrete Hearths 5. Summary and Conclusion VII - Ceramics & Beads 1. Glazed Earthenware and Glass 2. Lugged Incised (LINC) 3. Lugged Undecorated (LUND) 4. Spouted Pots (SPINC & SPIMP) 5. Sites Without Local Thin Ware 6. Ostrich Eggshell Beads 7. Summary and Conclusion VIII - Conclusions IX - Bibliography Appendix

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