Late Stone Age (Other Keyword)
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Hunting-and-gathering in northwestern Zimbabwe was largely replaced by pastoralism and farming between ca. 2,000 and 1,200 years ago. In order to understand whether climate change influenced this transition, we collected environmental and archaeological data during a multi-year research program that included: rockshelter excavation, salvage excavation along eroding stream cuts, and geomorphological and soils analyses of various locales in Hwange National Park. The strontium, carbon, and oxygen...
Geoarchaeology of Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe
As part of ongoing investigations by Gary Haynes in Hwange National Park, Teresa Wriston began doctoral research in northwestern Zimbabwe in 2008. The primary goal of this research is to reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions in southcentral Africa during the transition from hunting and gathering lifeways to agropastoralism. Establishing when and where this occurred in the project area was the first task. To date, two rockshelters have been excavated revealing an estimated 142,000...
Middle and Late Stone Age of the Niassa Region, Northern Mozambique. Preliminary results (2015)
Located between modern-day South Africa and Tanzania, both of which have well-known and extensive Stone Age records, Mozambique and its Stone Age sequence remain largely unknown in the broader context of African Pleistocene prehistory. This is in spite of the country’s critical position linking southern and eastern Africa, and of its clear potential to inform various models about recent human evolution. Specifically, the geography of Mozambique makes its sea coast a natural area of interest to...
Sourcing Lithic Raw Materials in the Namib Desert: Exploring land use and technological organization (2017)
Under a technological organization perspective, archaeologists seek to understand how prehistoric societies organized their activities across landscapes and how variation at individual sites articulates with changes in large scale land use systems. Lithic sourcing offers a powerful tool for testing hypotheses about technological organization and land use, but its application across the globe has, until recently, been hindered by expense and methodological difficulties. In this paper, we use pXRF...