Schmid, Viola C.Wadley, LynBrandl, MichaelGuillemard, IrisRhodes, SaraTaipale, NooraWitelson, David M.Börner, MarioRots, VeerleCnuts, DriesHodgskiss, TammyMurungi, MayNigst, Philip R.Porraz, GuillaumePuech, ElysandreStahlschmid, Mareike C.Stelzer, StefanieTeyssandier, NicolasTribolo, ChantalVal, AuroreVan Schalkwyk, LenArcher, Will2026-03-172026-03-172024http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/28446Rose Cottage Cave is widely recognised as a key sequence for the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age in the southern African central interior, with its unique palaeoenvironmental and chronocultural archive spanning a semi-continuous record from the Late Pleistocene to the 19th century. Building on important previous research, new excavations will extend our knowledge concerning technological systems, landscape use, human-environment interactions, as well as site formation and the linkages between these parameters in a regional context. Here we report on preliminary insights from the recent fieldwork and provide an overview of future directions.engSouth AfricaGrassland BiomeMiddle & Later Stone AgeHunter-gatherer behavioursPalaeoenvironmentRock artLithic technologyjournal article10.2307/48804382