Cemeteries and Sedentism in the Later Stone Age of NW Africa: Excavations at Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco (2019)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.S. Sparacello
Keyword(s):  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age

The Later Stone Age of Southernmost Africa

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janette Deacon
Keyword(s):  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age

LIGHT STABLE ISOTOPES OF OSTRICH EGGSHELLS PROVIDE SITE-SPECIFIC PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS DURING THE MIDDLE-TO-LATER STONE AGE TRANSITION IN EASTERN AFRICA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Niespolo ◽  
◽  
Warren D. Sharp ◽  
Warren D. Sharp ◽  
Christian A. Tryon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotopes ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
Site Specific

The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 153 ◽  
pp. 102954
Author(s):  
Ceri Shipton ◽  
James Blinkhorn ◽  
Will Archer ◽  
Nikolaos Kourampas ◽  
Patrick Roberts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Africa ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Coastal Forest ◽  
Later Stone Age

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

Changing Patterns in the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Prehistory of Southern Africa as Seen from the Nelson Bay Cave Stone Artifact Sequence

1978 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janette Deacon
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Stone Artifact

The dating of the Stone Age sequence in southern Africa has been considerably revised over the last decade, and one of the anomalies which has resulted is that the Middle Stone Age, now dated to beyond 30,000 B.P., does not immediately precede the Later Stone Agesensu stricto. The excavation and analysis of occupation horizons dating between the most recent Middle Stone Age assemblages and the Holocene is therefore of particular interest. Nelson Bay Cave, situated on the southern coast of South Africa, contains deposits which partly fill the “gap” between the Middle and Later Stone Ages, and the occupation horizons dating between about 18,000 and 5000 years ago are described in this paper. Changes in the habitat in the vicinity of the site caused by sea-level and vegetation changes coincident with the amelioration of temperatures at the end of the Pleistocene are clearly marked in the faunal remains at the site. Largely correlated with the faunal changes (which includes the introduction of marine resources to the cave at about 12,000 B.P.) are changes in the stone artifact assemblages. Three industries are recognized in the sequence: the Robberg, characterized by microbladelets produced from bladelet cores and a few small scrapers and backed tools; the Albany, characterized by large scrapers and an absence of backed tools; and the Wilton, characterized by a variety of Formal Tools including relatively large numbers of small scrapers and backed tools. These changes in artifact-manufacturing traditions are interpreted as signaling adjustments to changing environmental conditions. An explanation for these adjustments is not sought in a simple cause-and-effect relationship between the environment and the cultural response; artifact changes are seen instead as the result of a twofold process, with the environment acting as an external stimulus to change, and the direction of the artifact change governed by the selection of a range of possibilities offered by the technology of the Later Stone Agesensu latothat was widespread in subequatorial Africa during the last 20,000 years.

scholarly journals Phytolith Palaeoenvironments at Mumba Rock Shelter

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Mercader ◽  
Siobhán Clarke ◽  
Makarius Itambu ◽  
Abdallah Mohamed ◽  
Musa Mwitondi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Shelter Site ◽  
Northern Tanzania ◽  
Plant Habitat

The rock shelter site of Mumba in northern Tanzania plays a pivotal role in the overall study of the late Pleistocene archaeology of East Africa with an emphasis on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition. We used phytolith analysis to reconstruct general plant habitat physiognomy around the site from the onset of the late Pleistocene to recent times, tallying 4246 individual phytoliths from 19 archaeological samples. Statistical analysis explored phytolith richness, diversity, dominance, and evenness, along with principal components to compare phytolith distributions over the site’s sequence with known plant habitats today. Generally, the phytolith record of Mumba signifies paleoenvironments with analogs in the Somalia – Masai bushland and grassland, as well as Zambezian woodlands.

Radiometrically dated ostrich eggshell beads from the Middle and Later Stone Age of Magubike Rockshelter, southern Tanzania

2014 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 118-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Midori Miller ◽  
Pamela Rae Willoughby
Keyword(s):  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
Ostrich Eggshell
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