A quantitative analysis of wear distributions on Middle Stone Age marine shell beads from Blombos Cave, South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 102137
Author(s):  
Amy Hatton ◽  
Benjamin J. Schoville ◽  
Jayne Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Shell Beads ◽  
Blombos Cave ◽  
Marine Shell

Rock Hyraxes (Procavia capensis) from Middle Stone Age Levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaw Badenhorst ◽  
Karen L. van Niekerk ◽  
Christopher S. Henshilwood
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Procavia Capensis ◽  
Blombos Cave

Bone Artefacts from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 890-895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Henshilwood ◽  
Judith Sealy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Blombos Cave

Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Henshilwood ◽  
Francesco d'Errico ◽  
Ian Watts
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Blombos Cave

On the Soundness of Inferring Modern Language from Symbolic Behaviour

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolf Botha
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Expressive Power ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Blombos Cave ◽  
Linguistic Means

At issue in this article is the soundness of archaeological inferences which proceed stepwise from data about the material culture of Middle Stone Age humans, via assumptions about their symbolic behaviour, to the conclusion that they had modern language. Taking as paradigmatic the inference that the humans who inhabited Blombos Cave in South Africa some 75,000 years ago had fully syntactical language, the article argues that the inferential step from symbolic behaviour to modern language lacks the required warrant. This step, it is shown, is not underpinned by an adequate bridge theory of the putative links between symbolic behaviour and modern language. The bridge theories invoked to date to shore up the Blombos inference are flawed, for instance, in that they incorporate untenable assumptions about language, including an incorrect view of the expressive power of relatively simple linguistic means.

Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa

Science ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 304 (5669) ◽  
pp. 404-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Henshilwood
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Shell Beads

Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco d'Errico ◽  
Christopher Henshilwood ◽  
Marian Vanhaeren ◽  
Karen van Niekerk
Keyword(s):  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Shell Beads ◽  
Blombos Cave

Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary Report on the 1992–1999 Excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.S. Henshilwood ◽  
J.C. Sealy ◽  
R. Yates ◽  
K. Cruz-Uribe ◽  
P. Goldberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Blombos Cave
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