scholarly journals La secuencia arqueológica en el cinturón forestal centroafricano

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Martí
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Archaeological Record

Este trabajo presenta una revisión de la evidencia arqueológica en el cinturón forestal de África Central desde el Pleistoceno Final al Holoceno reciente. El avance generado por la investigación en África en las últimas décadas ha mostrado una mayor complejidad y variabilidad en el patrón de cambio tecnológico de lo que en un principio se estableció. Estos patrones además, difieren en gran medida de los observados en el registro europeo.This paper explores from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene archaeological record of Central África. The advance provided in África by the research during the last decades has shown a more complexity and variabllity in the technological chango pattern than earlier believed. These patterns are quite different from the European record.

scholarly journals Late Pleistocene and Holocene Lithic Variability at Goda Buticha (Southeastern Ethiopia): Implications for the Understanding of the Middle and Late Stone Age of the Horn of Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Leplongeon ◽  
David Pleurdeau ◽  
Erella Hovers
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Stratigraphic Sequence ◽  
Late Stone Age ◽  
Lithic Assemblages ◽  
Out Of Africa

AbstractsThe Late Pleistocene is a key period to understand the shift from the Middle (msa) to the Late Stone Age (lsa) in Africa. More generally, it is also a crucial time for elucidation of changes in the technological behaviours of human populations in Africa after the main Out of Africa event of modern humans ca. 60-50 thousand years ago. However, the archaeological record for this period is relatively poor, particularly for the Horn of Africa. Here we present a detailed analysis of the lithic assemblages from Goda Buticha (gb), a cave in southeastern Ethiopia, which has yielded a long stratigraphic sequence including Late Pleistocene and Holocene levels. This study (1) contributes to a better knowledge of the latemsain the Horn of Africa; (2) documents a late Holocenelsalevel (gb– Complexi); (3) highlights the presence ofmsacharacteristics associated withlsafeatures in the Holocene (gb– Layeriic). This adds to the emerging record of great lithic technological variability during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene in this region.

scholarly journals Reply to Clist et al.: Human activity is the most probable trigger of the late Holocene rainforest crisis in Western Central Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (21) ◽  
pp. E4735-E4736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannick Garcin ◽  
Pierre Deschamps ◽  
Guillemette Ménot ◽  
Geoffroy de Saulieu ◽  
Enno Schefuß ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Central Africa

Microlithic occurrences associated with sediments dated to terminal Pleistocene-late Holocene in the central Narmada basin, Madhya Pradesh, India

2021 ◽  
pp. SP515-2020-216
Author(s):  
Nupur Tiwari ◽  
P. Morthekai ◽  
K. Krishnan ◽  
Parth R. Chauhan
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Central India ◽  
Madhya Pradesh ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Terminal Pleistocene

AbstractThe earliest occurrence of microliths in South Asia dates back to the Late Pleistocene at Mehtakheri (45 ka) and Dhaba (48 ka) in Central India, Jwalapuram 9 in Southern India (38 ka), Kana and Mahadebbara in Northeastern India (42-25 ka) and Batadomba-Lena (35-36 ka) and Fa Hien Lena (48 ka) in Sri Lanka. Microlithic technology is distributed across the entire Indian Subcontinent and chronologically continues up to the Iron Age and Early Historic periods. This paper discusses new data acquired from the first author's doctoral research in the two districts of Madhya Pradesh (Hoshangabad and Sehore), which fall within the central part of the Narmada Basin in central India. We present here the preliminary dates from key areas of distribution to understand the geo-chronological contexts of microliths at Pilikarar, Morpani, and Gurla-Sukkarwada. Initial dates from these respective occurrences range between 12.5 ka and 2.3 ka.

Holocene Environments in Northeast Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-78
Author(s):  
Martin Williams
Keyword(s):  
Late Holocene ◽  
Flood Plain ◽  
Low Flow ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Maar Lake ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
White Nile ◽  
Ne Africa

This chapter provides an overview of the geography, hydrology, and climate of NE Africa, with particular reference to the complex interactions between river regime, climate, the biota, and human settlement. During the Early (11.7–8.2 ka) and Middle Holocene (8.2–4.2 ka) the climate was far less arid than today across the Nile basin, including Nubia, albeit with sporadic dry phases. Climatic desiccation set in during the Late Holocene (4.2 ka to present), with minor wet phases. Intervals when the Nile flow regime was apparently shifting from high to low flow and flood plain incision have provisional ages of ca. 8.15–7.75 ka, 6.4–6.15 ka, 5.7–5.45 ka, 4.7–4.25 ka, 3.35–2.9 ka, 2.8–2.55 ka, and 1600 ce. In the Kerma area of Nubia there were two periods of relatively dense human occupation in the earlier part of the Holocene from 10 ka to 8 ka and from 7 ka to 6 ka, with two significant gaps in the archaeological record at 7.5–7.1 ka and 6.0–5.4 ka, that coincided with very low levels in Lake Challa, a maar lake on the eastern flank of Mt Kilimanjaro, near the Ugandan headwaters of the White Nile.

A Good Place to Live: Plants and People at the Santa Elina Rock Shelter (Central Brazil) from Late Pleistocene to the Holocene

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-291
Author(s):  
Rita Scheel-Ybert ◽  
Caroline Bachelet
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Vegetation Changes ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Good Place ◽  
Central Brazil ◽  
Cultural Preference ◽  
Vegetation And Climate ◽  
Over Time

The Santa Elina rock shelter (Central Brazil) was recurrently occupied from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene. We compare sets of previously published anthracological analyses with new data to reconstruct the landscape, vegetation, and climate over the several thousand years of occupation, providing information on firewood management from about 27,000 to about 1500 cal BP. Laboratory analyses followed standard anthracological procedures. We identified 34 botanical families and 84 genera in a sample of almost 5,000 charcoal pieces. The Leguminosae family dominates the assemblage, followed by Anacardiaceae, Bignoniaceae, Rubiaceae, Euphorbiaceae, and Sapotaceae. The area surrounding the shelter was forested throughout the studied period. The local landscape was formed, as it is today, by a mosaic of vegetation types that include forest formations and open cerrado. Some regional vegetation changes may have occurred over time. Our data corroborate the practice of opportunistic firewood gathering in all periods of site occupation, despite a possible cultural preference for some taxa. The very long occupation of Santa Elina may be due not only to its attractiveness as a rock shelter but also to the continuously forested vegetation around it. It was a good place to live.

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