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Landscape-scale perspectives on Stone Age behavioural change from the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorHallinan, Emily
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-08T19:59:05Z
dc.date.available2021-10-08T19:59:05Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractSouthern Africa is an ecologically highly varied region, yet many generalisations about past human behaviour are drawn from rock shelter sites in coastal and montane Fynbos Biome environments. The Tankwa Karoo region offers the opportunity to extend our archaeological knowledge from the well-researched Western Cape into the arid interior Karoo in order to better capture behavioural variability and identify specific adaptations to more marginal conditions. This research presents the results of off-site surveys in the Tankwa Karoo, which spans the Cape to Karoo transition, mapping surface stone artefacts from the Earlier and Middle Stone Ages. The observed patterns in landscape use and lithic technology for each time-period were tested against a set of expectations based on previous research in the Western Cape and the Upper Karoo. The results indicate that in the Earlier Stone Age the most arid parts of the Tankwa Karoo saw only ephemeral use, with the better-watered mountain fringes preferred. In contrast, various strategies in the Middle Stone Age allowed groups to occupy these marginal parts of the landscape, including new kinds of technological behaviour suggestive of specific adaptations to this environment.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipUK Research & Innovation (UKRI) Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): 03865; Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship through the European Union Horizon 2020 framework: 891917; St Catharine's College, Cambridge University of Cambridgept_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/0067270X.2021.1960675pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn0067-270X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/17212
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherRoutledgept_PT
dc.relationTechnological Adaptations of Nubian cores in the Karoo: neW geometric morphometric Approaches
dc.subjectLandscape usept_PT
dc.subjectMiddle Stone Agept_PT
dc.subjectSouth Africapt_PT
dc.subjectSurface archaeologypt_PT
dc.subjectLithic artefactspt_PT
dc.titleLandscape-scale perspectives on Stone Age behavioural change from the Tankwa Karoo, South Africapt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.awardTitleTechnological Adaptations of Nubian cores in the Karoo: neW geometric morphometric Approaches
oaire.awardURIinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/891917/EU
oaire.citation.endPage343pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue3pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage304pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleAzania: Archaeological Research in Africapt_PT
oaire.citation.volume56pt_PT
oaire.fundingStreamH2020
person.familyNameHallinan
person.givenNameEmily
person.identifier.ciencia-id3114-DA5B-8F09
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-0698-8238
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project.funder.identifierhttp://doi.org/10.13039/501100008530
project.funder.nameEuropean Commission
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