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Landscape-scale perspectives on Later Stone Age settlement in the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorHallinan, Emily
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-11T11:00:21Z
dc.date.available2023-03-11T11:00:21Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe Late Pleistocene and Holocene settlement record of southern Africa shows clear discontinuities both through time and across space. While there is considerable variability between different ecological biomes, the sub-continent's interior arid zones show particularly unstable occupation histories. However, understanding the nature of and reasons for these discontinuities is hampered by substantial spatial gaps in our archaeological knowledge. This paper presents evidence from the Tankwa Karoo region - intermediate between the well-studied Western Cape Cederberg Mountains and the interior Upper Karoo - to capture Later Stone Age (LSA) behaviour at the interface between Cape and Karoo environments. Off-site surveys recorded surface artefacts across a 100 km-long study area, documenting LSA settlement at a landscape scale and testing expected patterns against settlement records of regions to the west and east. The results indicate that in contrast to the strongly pulsed occupation evidence from the Cederberg Mountains and the Upper Karoo, no LSA phases show particularly high site densities or sustained use of longer-term sites. Additionally, the most arid parts of the eastern Tankwa Karoo show very limited LSA evidence. This suggests that this marginal environment was occupied only ephemerally during the LSA, potentially serving as a corridor between more reliably resourced regions.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/0067270X.2022.2152990pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn0067-270X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/19220
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherTaylor & Francispt_PT
dc.relationTechnological Adaptations of Nubian cores in the Karoo: neW geometric morphometric Approaches
dc.subjectLandscape usept_PT
dc.subjectLater Stone Agept_PT
dc.subjectSouth Africapt_PT
dc.subjectSurface archaeologypt_PT
dc.subjectLithic artefactspt_PT
dc.titleLandscape-scale perspectives on Later Stone Age settlement in the Tankwa Karoo, South Africapt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.awardTitleTechnological Adaptations of Nubian cores in the Karoo: neW geometric morphometric Approaches
oaire.awardURIinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/891917/EU
oaire.citation.endPage462pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue4pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage419pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleAzania: Archaeological Research in Africapt_PT
oaire.citation.volume57pt_PT
oaire.fundingStreamH2020
person.familyNameHallinan
person.givenNameEmily
person.identifier.ciencia-id3114-DA5B-8F09
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-0698-8238
person.identifier.scopus-author-id57195642319
project.funder.identifierhttp://doi.org/10.13039/501100008530
project.funder.nameEuropean Commission
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rcaap.typearticlept_PT
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