scholarly journals Later Stone Age human hair from Vaalkrans Shelter, Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, reveals genetic affinity to Khoe groups

2021 ◽  
Vol 174 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-713
Author(s):  
Alexandra Coutinho ◽  
Helena Malmström ◽  
Hanna Edlund ◽  
Christopher S. Henshilwood ◽  
Karen L. Niekerk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Hair ◽  
Cape Floristic Region ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
Genetic Affinity

scholarly journals Kite-like structures in the Nama Karoo of South Africa

Antiquity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 92 (363) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaco van der Walt ◽  
Marlize Lombard
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Near East ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age

Desert kites are well documented in the Middle East, Near East, Arabia and Central Asia, but are much rarer elsewhere. Here, we present two newly discovered kites near Keimoes in South Africa that provide possible evidence for animal exploitation during the Later Stone Age.

Human Skeletal Remains from the Southern Cape Province and Their Bearing on the Stone Age Prehistory of South Africa

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. P. Rightmire
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
River Mouth ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
Human Skeletal Remains ◽  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
Skeletal Samples ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Cave Sediment

Substantial numbers of human skeletons have been recovered from caves and shelters of the southern Cape Province, South Africa, and these constitute a valuable source of information about evolutionary change and population movement during Upper Pleistocene and Holocene times. A few fragments from Klasies River Mouth and Die Kelders are firmly associated with Middle Stone Age cultural assemblages, but most of the material is probably linked with the Later Stone Age Albany and Wilton industries. Unfortunately the largest collections of relatively well-preserved remains have come from earlier excavations (Matjes River Shelter, Oakhurst), and the stratigraphic provenance of these burials is frequently in doubt. Other skeletal samples are small, and paleodemographic approaches are diffcult to apply. However, Bushman- or Hottentot-like individuals can certainly be identified, and this is important to the questions of Bushman antiquity or origins. Other problems concerning early Cape populations can also be examined, and this work on the human skeletons should complement ongoing cave sediment and other geological studies, faunal and plant analyses, and archaeological investigations of associated cultural remains.

The Current Occupation of Kruger Cave, A Later Stone Age Site, South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Justin Bradfield ◽  
Matt Geoffrey Lotter
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age
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