Cranial Injuries to Later Stone Age Children from the Modder River Mouth, Western Cape Province, South Africa

2004 ◽  
Vol 59 (180) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Pfeiffer ◽  
N. J. van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
River Mouth ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
Western Cape Province

Human Skeletal Remains from the Southern Cape Province and Their Bearing on the Stone Age Prehistory of South Africa

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. P. Rightmire
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
River Mouth ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
Human Skeletal Remains ◽  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
Skeletal Samples ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Cave Sediment

Substantial numbers of human skeletons have been recovered from caves and shelters of the southern Cape Province, South Africa, and these constitute a valuable source of information about evolutionary change and population movement during Upper Pleistocene and Holocene times. A few fragments from Klasies River Mouth and Die Kelders are firmly associated with Middle Stone Age cultural assemblages, but most of the material is probably linked with the Later Stone Age Albany and Wilton industries. Unfortunately the largest collections of relatively well-preserved remains have come from earlier excavations (Matjes River Shelter, Oakhurst), and the stratigraphic provenance of these burials is frequently in doubt. Other skeletal samples are small, and paleodemographic approaches are diffcult to apply. However, Bushman- or Hottentot-like individuals can certainly be identified, and this is important to the questions of Bushman antiquity or origins. Other problems concerning early Cape populations can also be examined, and this work on the human skeletons should complement ongoing cave sediment and other geological studies, faunal and plant analyses, and archaeological investigations of associated cultural remains.

Human manual distal phalanges from the Middle Stone Age deposits of Klasies River Main Site, Western Cape Province, South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 146 ◽  
pp. 102849
Author(s):  
Frederick E. Grine ◽  
Carrie S. Mongle ◽  
Shelley L. Smith ◽  
Wendy Black ◽  
Anton du Plessis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Western Cape Province ◽  
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