Modern human origins and decolonisation in South Africa

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-43
Author(s):  
Sarah Wurz ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Origins ◽  
Modern Human Origins

scholarly journals Continuous vegetation record of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa) covering the past 300 000 years (IODP U1479)

2022 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Lydie M. Dupont ◽  
Xueqin Zhao ◽  
Christopher Charles ◽  
John Tyler Faith ◽  
David Braun
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Vegetation History ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Cape Floristic Region ◽  
Human Origins ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern Human Origins ◽  
Last Glaciation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Last Glacial

Abstract. The Greater Cape Floristic Region (GCFR) of South Africa is a biodiversity hotspot of global significance, and its archeological record has substantially contributed to the understanding of modern human origins. For both reasons, the climate and vegetation history of southwestern South Africa is of interest to numerous fields. Currently known paleoenvironmental records cover the Holocene, the last glacial–interglacial transition and parts of the last glaciation but do not encompass a full glacial–interglacial cycle. To obtain a continuous vegetation record of the last Pleistocene glacial–interglacial cycles, we studied pollen, spores and micro-charcoal of deep-sea sediments from IODP Site U1479 retrieved from SW of Cape Town. We compare our palynological results of the Pleistocene with previously published results of Pliocene material from the same site. We find that the vegetation of the GCFR, in particular fynbos and afrotemperate forest, responds to precessional forcing of climate. The micro-charcoal record confirms the importance of fires in the fynbos vegetation. Ericaceae-rich and Asteraceae-rich types of fynbos could extend on the western part of the Paleo-Agulhas Plain (PAP), which emerged during periods of low sea level of the Pleistocene.

Paleoscape model of coastal South Africa during modern human origins

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Shook ◽  
Kim Hill ◽  
Karen J. Esler ◽  
Richard M. Cowling ◽  
Simon Scheiter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Origins ◽  
Modern Human Origins

Modern Human Origins Faunal Perspectives

1993 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Stiner
Keyword(s):  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Origins ◽  
Modern Human Origins

Modern human origins in Africa

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Fleagle ◽  
Christopher C. Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Origins ◽  
Modern Human Origins

Are Neanderthals challenging the “out-of-Africa” model for modern human origins?

2010 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuanchao WANG ◽  
Hui LI
Keyword(s):  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Origins ◽  
Modern Human Origins ◽  
Out Of Africa
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