The Magosian Culture of Khami, Near Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia

Making Points: The Middle Stone Age lithic industry of the Makgadikgadi Basin, Botswana

“…Armstrong (1931) uncovered a varied assemblage with imported, fine-grained raw materials, highly retouched points, and Levallois and discoid lithic technologies. Similar arguments can be made for the lower levels of Zombepata Cave (Cooke, 1971;Larsson, 2007), and even for the Magosian levels at Khami (Jones and Summers, 1946). More recent work at Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, shows that Bambata MSA can also be located in a Kalahari-adjacent environment (Haynes and Klimowicz, 2009;Klimowicz and Haynes, 1996).…”

“…The similarity of the north-western Kalahari MSA sites to the Bambata industry of Zimbabwe has been noted previously by several researchers (Brooks et al, 2006;Coulson et al, 2011;Helgren and Brooks, 1983;but compare Robbins and Murphy, 1998). Unfortunately, most Bambata sites were originally investigated under early archaeological research regimes (e.g., Armstrong, 1931;Cooke, 1950;Cooke, 1955;Cooke, 1963;Cooke, 1971;Hole, 1959;Jones, 1940;Jones and Summers, 1946;Summers, 1955), and consequently lack coherent chronologies (Haynes and Klimowicz, 2009;Larsson, 1996;Walker and Thorp, 1997).…”