2017/05/24· Ochre use by Middle Stone Age humans in PorcEpic cave persisted over thousands of years Ochre pigment acquisition, processing, use likely reflect cohesive behavioral system Date: May 24, 2017 Source: PLOS
2017/08/09· Many Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites have evidence of the regular collection and use of ochre. Sibudu (KwaZuluNatal, South Africa) has a large MSA ochre assemblage of over 9000 pieces from layers dating between ~77 ...
Sibudu Cave is a rock shelter in a sandstone cliff in northern KwaZuluNatal, South Africa. It is an important Middle Stone Age site occupied, with some gaps, from 77,000 years ago to 38,000 years ago. Evidence of some of the ...
This project utilized Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in an attempt to better understand fire use at the Middle Stone Age site of Sibudu Cave, South Africa. Our project focused on the Howiesons Poort deposits (HP; ~6562 ka).
Identification of the sedge Cladium mariscus subsp. jamaicense and its possible use in the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, KwaZuluNatal Christine Sievers1 and A. Muthama Muasya2 1School of Geography, Archaeology and 2 ...
If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account. Find out more about sending content to Dropbox. Indications of bow and stonetipped arrow use 64 ...
2017/04/26· Early evidence of Middle Stone Age projectiles found in South Africa''s Sibudu Cave Bifacial, serrated points likely created by pressure flaking technique and hafted on projected weapons Date: April 26, 2017 Source: PLOS
OCHRE USE AT SIBUDU CAVE AND ITS LINK TO COMPLEX COGNITION IN THE MIDDLE STONE AGE Tamaryn Penny Hodgskiss A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
2010/07/15· The classification of archaeological assemblages in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa in terms of diversity and temporal continuity has significant implications with respect to recent cultural evolutionary models which ...
Were snares and traps used in the Middle Stone Age and does it matter? A review and a case study from Sibudu, South Africa ... The concept of remote capture involved in the creation and use of snares and traps is one of several ...
2017/03/01· Why Was Silcrete HeatTreated in the Middle Stone Age? An Early Transformative Technology in the Context of Raw Material Use at Mertenhof Rock Shelter, South Africa Patrick Schmidt, Alex Mackay, Nuno Bicho
Ochre Use in the Middle stOne Age At sibUdU, sOUth AfricA: grinding, rUbbing, scOring And engrAving Tammy Hodgskiss ...
2013/07/12· Given the apparent chronological association between the Howieson''s Poort (HP; ~65–60 ka)—a substage of the southern African Middle Stone Age (MSA) showing evidence for advanced technology and materi ...
Periodical article ASC Leiden catalogue WorldCat Title: Ochre use in the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa: grinding, rubbing, scoring and engraving Author: Hodgskiss, Tammy Year: 2013 Periodical: Journal of African 11 ...
The Taphonomy of the Final Middle Stone Age Fauna from Sibudu Cave, South Africa B. R. COLLINSa* Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada ABSTRACT This study applies a taphonomic analysis ...
Ochre is found at many Middle Stone Age sites and its use is often associated with enhanced mental abilities and symbolism, but the links between the visible uses of ochre and cognition have not been clearly defined. By ...
Ochre is found at many Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites and its use is often attributed by archaeologists to enhanced mental abilities and symbolism. However, the links between the visible uses of ochre, cognition and symbolism have ...
Archaeological charcoal as a window on palaeovegetation and wooduse during the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu Cave Lucy Fiona Allott School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the ABSTRACT ...
2017/04/26· Early evidence of Middle Stone Age projectiles found in South Africa''s Sibudu Cave April 26, 2017 Analyzed serrated pieces. Credit: Rots et al (2017) Innovations in stone knapping technology during the South African Middle ...
The Middle Stone Age (or MSA) was a period of African prehistory between the Early Stone Age and the Later Stone Age. It is generally considered to have begun around 280,000 years ago and ended around 50–25,000 years ago. ...
Recently discovered bone implements from Middle Stone Age (MSA) deposits at Sibudu Cave, South Africa, confirm the existence of a bone tool industry for the Howiesons Poort (HP) technocomplex. Previously, an isolated bone ...
2017/08/07· ... late and final Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 35:1790–1807. Crossref First citation in article Jerardino, Antonietta. 2001. Diversity in mastic‐mounted stone adzes and the use of ...
2009/10/04· Ochre powder production and use are documented in Middle Stone Age South African sites but until now there has been no evidence of the use of milk as a binder. Our analyses show that this ochrebased mixture was neither a ...
A late Middle Stone Age artifact assemblage from Sibudu (KwaZuluNatal): comparisons with the European Middle Paleolithic Paola Villaa,*, Anne Delagnesb, Lyn Wadleyc aUniversity of Colorado Museum, UCB 265, Boulder, CO ...