Re-examining the South African Middle-to-Later Stone Age transition: Multivariate analysis of the Umhlatuzana and Rose Cottage Cave stone tool assemblages

2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant S. McCall ◽  
Jonathan T. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
South African ◽  
Stone Tool ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
The South

Surface Implements of Palæolithic Type

1914 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-472
Author(s):  
Reginald A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
The South ◽  
Object Lesson

The series exhibited by Mr. Vachell not only contains some specimens of peculiar interest, but teaches a lesson that will not be lost on prehistorians at the present time. The Downs behind Folkestone are, like most of the chalk area in the South-East of England, very rich in worked flints, though probably no richer than many other localities with the same formation; but surface finds are in the nature of things miscellaneous, and collectors are often at a loss to classify what they pick up in the open. For this deadlock the text-books are largely to blame, for if they do not actually state that surface-finds are Neolithic, they imply that such is the case; and confidence in form is considerably shaken when ovate implements, identical in all but colour with gravel specimens, are attributed to the later Stone Age merely on account of their position. Some authors have protested, but the superstition is still rife, and another object-lesson will not be superfluous.

scholarly journals Heat treatment in the South African Middle Stone Age: temperature induced transformations of silcrete and their technological implications

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 3519-3531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Schmidt ◽  
Guillaume Porraz ◽  
Aneta Slodczyk ◽  
Ludovic Bellot-gurlet ◽  
William Archer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
South African ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
The South
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