The Technological Sequence of Heuningneskrans (Limpopo, South Africa) around the Time of the Last Glacial Maximum

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From Veld to Coast: Diverse Landscape Use by Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The southern African region comprises a mosaic of biomes influenced by various physical and atmospheric parameters. Pleistocene hunter-gatherer societies would have exploited those biomes differently, which would have contributed to generate different lithic assemblages and traditions. The opposition between the coast and the veld is often regarded as one main dialectic that contributes to explain the technological variability across the landscape. Other oppositions have also been proposed, relating for instance to the distribution of raw materials. In this paper, we focus on a recently excavated lithic assemblage from Heuningneskrans in Limpopo Province (South Africa) and initiate a discussion on the Robberg techno-typological expressions in South Africa with regard to (1) space (inland and coast), (2) time (around the Last Glacial Maximum), and (3) geo-resources distribution (raw materials).

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• From Veld to Coast: Diverse Landscape Use by Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene   •
• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

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Abstract Id(s): 32630