Coastal Occupation and Foraging During the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Waterfall Bluff, Eastern Pondoland, South Africa

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances and Debates in the Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The P5 Project is an international and interdisciplinary team of researchers studying hunter-gatherer adaptations in persistent coastal contexts in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Since 2015, excavations at the site of Waterfall Bluff (A2SE-1) have revealed stratified and well-preserved remains of coastal hunter-gatherer occupations dating from the end of the Pleistocene and the start of the Holocene. These results have provided new insights into the coastal adaptations of hunter-gatherers during the Last Glacial Maximum and the onset of the Holocene. Our research has shown that Pondoland is an extremely important location for studying coastal occupation and resource use during glacial maxima. Here, we describe recent archaeological, sedimentological, paleoenvironmental, and geochronological research at the site and summarize upcoming research activities.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Recent Advances and Debates in the Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa

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Abstract Id(s): 25606