The Prehistory of Southern Rhodesia

Abstract

Originally published in 1949, this book presents an account of the progress of research into the prehistory of the area then known as Southern Rhodesia during the first half of the twentieth century. The text avoids a consecutive account of Stone Age cultures in favour of an arrangement whereby the different localities selected for description are allowed to tell their own story. Numerous illustrative figures and a glossary are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in prehistoric man and archaeology.

The Ground Stone Axes of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)

“…comm.)). A number of axes have been found in the open with no other artefacts (see Jones 1949). (Walker 1980).…”

Lacustrine geoarchaeology in the central Kalahari: Implications for Middle Stone Age behaviour and adaptation in dryland conditions

“…Important, often now neglected, investigations also occurred in river systems on the northern and eastern margins of the Kalahari basin. These include the analysis of ESA to LSA artefacts from the staircase of river terrace and Kalahari Sand deposits associated with the Zambezi valley both above and below Victoria Falls (Clark, 1950;Bond and Clark, 1954); extensive artefact spreads in the valley terrace deposits of Zambezi tributaries in modern Zimbabwe (Jones, 1944;Bond, 1946) and in the Nata River in eastern Botswana (Bond and Summers, 1954); and MSA and LSA sites on the Upper Zambezi in western Zambia (Phillipson, 1968(Phillipson, , 1975(Phillipson, , 1976(Phillipson, , 1977. The Upper Zambezi sites have recently been given chronometric control by Burrough et al (2019), while new chronologies are being developed for the Victoria Falls sites that provide a maximum age for the transition to the MSA in this area of 590 ± 86 ka (Richter et al, 2022).…”