scholarly journals New ages from Sehonghong rock shelter: Implications for the late Pleistocene occupation of highland Lesotho

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 307-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Pargeter ◽  
Emma Loftus ◽  
Peter Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Rock Shelter

scholarly journals Phytolith Palaeoenvironments at Mumba Rock Shelter

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Mercader ◽  
Siobhán Clarke ◽  
Makarius Itambu ◽  
Abdallah Mohamed ◽  
Musa Mwitondi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Shelter Site ◽  
Northern Tanzania ◽  
Plant Habitat

The rock shelter site of Mumba in northern Tanzania plays a pivotal role in the overall study of the late Pleistocene archaeology of East Africa with an emphasis on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition. We used phytolith analysis to reconstruct general plant habitat physiognomy around the site from the onset of the late Pleistocene to recent times, tallying 4246 individual phytoliths from 19 archaeological samples. Statistical analysis explored phytolith richness, diversity, dominance, and evenness, along with principal components to compare phytolith distributions over the site’s sequence with known plant habitats today. Generally, the phytolith record of Mumba signifies paleoenvironments with analogs in the Somalia – Masai bushland and grassland, as well as Zambezian woodlands.

A Good Place to Live: Plants and People at the Santa Elina Rock Shelter (Central Brazil) from Late Pleistocene to the Holocene

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-291
Author(s):  
Rita Scheel-Ybert ◽  
Caroline Bachelet
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Vegetation Changes ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Good Place ◽  
Central Brazil ◽  
Cultural Preference ◽  
Vegetation And Climate ◽  
Over Time

The Santa Elina rock shelter (Central Brazil) was recurrently occupied from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene. We compare sets of previously published anthracological analyses with new data to reconstruct the landscape, vegetation, and climate over the several thousand years of occupation, providing information on firewood management from about 27,000 to about 1500 cal BP. Laboratory analyses followed standard anthracological procedures. We identified 34 botanical families and 84 genera in a sample of almost 5,000 charcoal pieces. The Leguminosae family dominates the assemblage, followed by Anacardiaceae, Bignoniaceae, Rubiaceae, Euphorbiaceae, and Sapotaceae. The area surrounding the shelter was forested throughout the studied period. The local landscape was formed, as it is today, by a mosaic of vegetation types that include forest formations and open cerrado. Some regional vegetation changes may have occurred over time. Our data corroborate the practice of opportunistic firewood gathering in all periods of site occupation, despite a possible cultural preference for some taxa. The very long occupation of Santa Elina may be due not only to its attractiveness as a rock shelter but also to the continuously forested vegetation around it. It was a good place to live.

The brown lemming, Lemmus sibiricus (Rodentia, Arvicolidae), in the late Pleistocene of Alberta and its postglacial dispersal

1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (8) ◽  
pp. 1507-1511 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Burns
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Small Mammal ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Fossil Remains ◽  
Relict Population

The first fossil remains of Lemmus sibiricus south of Beringia are reported from a rock shelter called January Cave in the Front Ranges of the Rocky Mountains, southwestern Alberta, Canada. The 45 specimens were excavated along with several thousands of isolated small mammal teeth and fragmentary bones. Dated by both radiocarbon and thermoluminescence methods to span the last 22 000 – 23 000 years, a late Pleistocene-through-present sequence is provided. Argument is made for the existence of a southern relict population of this lemming prior to a northward, postglacial dispersal into British Columbia and the Yukon Territory.

The Changing Provenance of Red Ochre at Puritjarra Rock Shelter, Central Australia: Late Pleistocene to Present

1998 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 275-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Smith ◽  
B. Fankhauser ◽  
M. Jercher
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Central Australia ◽  
Test Current ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

In this paper we apply geochemical sourcing methods to an assemblage of ochre from archaeological excavations at the Puritjarra rock shelter in western central Australia. Our work indicates that the red ochre in Late Pleistocene contexts at this rock shelter is from Karrku, a subterranean ochre mine still worked today by Walbiri people. Archaeological finds at Puritjarra indicate that exploitation of this source of high-grade red ochre had begun by 32,000 BP and has continued without significant interruption since then. Changes since the Late Pleistocene in the type and quantity of red ochre reaching the Puritjarra shelter, from various sources including Karrku, provide means to test current models of regional prehistory in this part of arid Australia and illustrate some of the potential of this approach for regional studies.

scholarly journals A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. e0193025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Brumm ◽  
Budianto Hakim ◽  
Muhammad Ramli ◽  
Maxime Aubert ◽  
Gerrit D. van den Bergh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Shelter Site

scholarly journals Correction: A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. e0202357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Brumm ◽  
Budianto Hakim ◽  
Muhammad Ramli ◽  
Maxime Aubert ◽  
Gerrit D. van den Bergh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Shelter Site

Late Pleistocene Faunal Remains from Seton Rock Shelter, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

1977 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 363 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Hope ◽  
R. J. Lampert ◽  
E. Edmondson ◽  
M. J. Smith ◽  
G. F. van Tets
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Rock Shelter
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