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Current themes in Middle Stone Age research

Title
Current themes in Middle Stone Age research / edited by Marlize Lombard, Christine Sievers and Valerie Ward in honour of Lyn Wadley.
Publication
Vlaeberg, South Africa : South African Archaeological Society in association with ASAPA, ©2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Lombard, Marlize.
  • Sievers, Christine.
  • Ward, Valerie.
  • Wadley, Lyn.
  • South African Archaeological Society.
  • Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists.
Description
188 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 30 cm.
Series Statement
Goodwin series / South African Archaeological Society, 0304-3460 ; v. 10 (December 2008)
Uniform Title
Goodwin series ; v. 10.
Subject
  • Mesolithic period > Africa, Southern
  • Mesolithic period > South Africa
  • Stone age > Africa, Southern
  • Stone age > South Africa
  • Antiquities
  • Mesolithic period
  • Stone age
  • Mesolithikum
  • Mesolitisk tid > Sydafrika
  • Mesolitisk tid > Södra Afrika
  • Stenåldern > Sydafrika
  • South Africa > Antiquities
  • Africa, Southern > Antiquities
  • Southern Africa
  • South Africa
  • Südafrika
  • Sydafrika > fornlämningar
Note
  • Title from cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface / C. Sievers -- Modelling the MSA : a tribute to Lyn Wadley / J. Deacon -- Testing times : old and new chronologies for the Howieson's Poort and Still Bay Industries in environmental context / Z. Jacobs and R.G. Roberts -- Winds of change : palaeoenvironments, material culture and human behaviour in the Late Pleistocene (~77 ka-48 ka ago) in the Western Cape Province, South Africa / C.S. Henshilwood -- Developing the archaeology of marine isotope stage 3 / R. Mitchell -- The Ysterfontein 1 Middle Stone Age rock shelter and the evolution of coastal foraging / G. Avery, D. Halkett, J. Orton, T. Steele, M. Tusenius and R. Klein -- The Mossel Bay lithic variant : 120 years of Middle Stone Age research from Cape St Blaize Cave to Pinnacle Point / E. Thompson and C.W. Marean -- Preliminary characterization of a Middle Stone Age lithic assemblage preceding the 'classic' Howieson's Poort complex at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape Province, South Africa / G. Porraz, P-J. Texier, J-P. Rigaud, J. Parkington, C. Poggenpoel and D.L. Roberts -- The Howieson's Poort Industry of Sibudu Cave / L. Wadley -- In the air : a preliminary report of the birds from Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / I. Plug and J.L. Clark -- The context of the 1967-8 sample of human remains from Cave 1 Klasies River main site / H.J. Deacon -- Modern behaviour at Klasies River / S. Wurz -- The transition from Howieson's Poort to post-Howieson's Poort Industries in southern Africa / G.W.G. Cochrane -- Le rouge et le noir : implications of early pigment use in Africa, the Near East and Europe for the origin of cultural modernity / F. d'Errico -- A critical view of the evidence for a southern African origin of behavioural modernity / N.J. Conard -- From testing times to high resolution : the late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age of South Africa and beyond / M. Lombard.
LCCN
2009423024
OCLC
  • ocn311738615
  • 311738615
  • SCSB-1528967
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library