Kingdom of Lesotho (Country) (Geographic Keyword)
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Photographs in this file relate to the below papers. On the basis of morphological analyses of faunal remains recovered from Sehonghong Rock Shelter, Lesotho, Mitchell et al. (2008) argued that significant numbers of domestic stock were being husbanded by traditionally foraging groups. Nineteen specimens were provided to us for ancient DNA analysis (Horsburgh et al. 2016), and we were able to recover mitochondrial DNA from ten. In only one specimen did the genetic identification of species match...
Tracing long-distance exchange of copper in southern Africa with lead isotopes (NSF BCS 1852958)
Overview: This proposal is for an interdisciplinary study of copper artefacts from multiple archaeological excavations in the southern third of the African continent; the sites that yielded these artefacts date between about 300 AD and 1850 AD. Many of these archaeological sites are a long way from any potential source of copper ore. We will undertake chemical and lead isotopic analyses of some 250 copper artefacts with the goal of identifying the parent ore deposits. To do this we will...