African Middle Stone Age (Other Keyword)

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A Middle Stone Age Paleoscape near the Pinnacle Point caves, Vleesbaai, South Africa (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Simen Oestmo. Benjamin Schoville. Jayne Wilkins. Curtis Marean.

MSA caves/rock shelters can provide long sequences of early human residential activities in circumscribed contexts, but most resource procurement activities occurred on the landscape in uncircumscribed space. We have a limited understanding of these resource procurement activities at present, making studies of open-air sites crucial. To alleviate this bias, we report on a series of MSA open-air assemblages that are exposed on ancient land surfaces suggestive of intact paleosols at Vleesbaai and...