A Preliminary Report on Excavations at Byneskranskop, Bredasdorp District, Cape

Schweitzer, Friedrich; Jennifer, Wilson, Ms, Els,

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“…Cedric Poggenpoel was the first archaeologist to systematically identify and quantify marine fish remains from sites in the southwestern Cape. He has been responsible for the majority of fish identifications at sites in this area since the early 1970's (Henshilwood 1995;Inskeep 1987;Klein 1972a;Parkington 1976;Poggenpoel 1984Poggenpoel , 1987Poggenpoel , 1996Poggenpoel and Robertshaw 1981;Robey 1984;Schweitzer 1979;Schweitzer and Wilson 1982;Singer and Wymer 1982). Poggenpoel's method of identification is usually based on a predetermined set of robust elements, but he has also shown that the inclusion of other elements for certain species can increase both specimen count and number of taxa (Poggenpoel 1984(Poggenpoel , 1996.…”

Section: Marine Resources and 'Modern' Human Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fish gorges, also referred to as bone bi-points or straight hooks (Rick et al 2001;Walters 1988), are symmetrical bone fragments that have been polished and sharpened at both ends. They have been found at just a few LSA coastal sites, namely Nelson Bay Cave (Deacon 1978;Klein 1972a), Byneskranskop 1 (Schweitzer and Wilson 1978;, Elands Bay Cave (Poggenpoel 1996) and Matjes River (Döckel 1998). All occur in layers with ages of between 10000 and 7800 years ago.…”

Section: Hooksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some doubt has been expressed about whether the fish gorges found in southern and western Cape archaeological sites were actually used to catch fish. This observation is based on the absence of bone gorges in many layers that contain large amounts of fish (Inskeep 1987;Poggenpoel 1996;Schweitzer and Wilson 1982). At Byneskranskop 1 (BNK) in particular, only four fish were present in the layers containing the eight gorges found at the site, and no gorges were reportedly found in the layers with the highest densities of fish (Schweitzer and Wilson 1982).…”

Section: Hooksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This observation is based on the absence of bone gorges in many layers that contain large amounts of fish (Inskeep 1987;Poggenpoel 1996;Schweitzer and Wilson 1982). At Byneskranskop 1 (BNK) in particular, only four fish were present in the layers containing the eight gorges found at the site, and no gorges were reportedly found in the layers with the highest densities of fish (Schweitzer and Wilson 1982). Two of the bone artefacts from BNK illustrated and categorized as awls (Schweitzer and Wilson 1982: 78 Fig.…”

Section: Hooksmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Marine fish exploitation during the Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa

Niekerk¹

2011

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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access to the Blombos Cave and Blombosfontein 1 and 6 materials and to Hilary Deacon for access to the Klasies River main site fish remains. Sarah Wurz and Petro Keene were very helpful with regards to access of material curated at the IZIKO South African Museum, for which I am grateful, and it was a pleasure working with both of them.Thanks are due to Paul Cowley from the South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) who very kindly and with considerable effort supplied me with a number of species that were lacking from my comparative collection. Special thanks to Nicholas Henshilwood and Morgan Wilson for their enthusiastic help in augmenting the comparative collection with their fishing expeditions. Drs P. and E. Heemstra, along with the publications department of the SAIAB, kindly gave me permission to use the illustrations of the fish species from their book (2004) Coastal Fishes of Southern Africa.

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Section: Marine Resources and 'Modern' Human Behaviourmentioning

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Section: Hooksmentioning

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Section: Hooksmentioning

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Section: Hooksmentioning

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Marine fish exploitation during the Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa

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2011

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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“…(Pta-1587, Pta-1905. 44 Lithic material from this period has not been correlated with assemblages from other sites in the southern Cape as there is a paucity of formal tools. The fauna show interesting contrasts with the later collection, as the assemblage is dominated by larger grazers suggesting a floral mosaic with a more substantial grassland element than is found today.…”

Section: The Southern Capementioning

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Some recent radiocarbon dates from Southern Africa

Hall

Vogel²

1980

J. Afr. Hist.

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In this paper we review radiocarbon dates which have become available over the past three years for the more recent archaeological sites south of the Cunene and Limpopo Rivers, assessing the determinations within the broader context of economy and society. For a framework, we make use of broad physiographic divisions of southern Africa, thus breaking from the artificial constraints of modern political divisions and allowing greater possibilities of synthesisWithin the set of new dates there are several fields in which recent radiocarbon determinations have been particularly important. The nature of hunting and gathering and herding communities in the arid western regions of the sub-continent is now more fully understood and more information is available about the succession of lithic industries in the south-western interior. In the south-eastern coastal areas the geographical extent of the earliest farming communities has been firmly dated. New determinations are beginning to provide a firmer chronology for the succession of ceramic industries in the east, and reassessment of the dating of the important sites of Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe demands a revision of concepts of early state development and trading contact with the east coast.

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