This study examines mid-to late Holocene Later Stone Age archaeological residues–
specifically flaked stone artefacts, ostrich eggshell beads and pottery–from Namaqualand …

Dogs were one of several domestic animals kept by precolonial southern African herders,
but their economic and social relevance for these communities has been little explored. This …

The subsistence practices of Later Stone Age (LSA) foragers and herders living in
Namaqualand South Africa are often difficult to differentiate based on their archaeological …

We have excavated and mapped just over 850 m² of late precolonial campsites at Dunefield
Midden some 2 km north of the mouth of the Verloren Vlei, Western Cape Province, South …

Hunting and gathering was practiced for many hundreds of thousands of years in South
Africa's Western Cape region, until ceramics and a stock-keeping economy first appeared c …

Since excavations at Elands Bay Cave thirty years ago, a small number of nearby sites were
excavated in the late 1970s and early 1980s in order to provide complementary …

Spring Cave is situated just below the Baboon Point escarpment in Elands Bay and is one of
only a handful of central west coast sites with deposits dating to the Medieval Warm …

In aerial and satellite photographs of South Africa, the dune field of Geelbek is an easily
recognizable feature of the landscape (Fig. 1). The dunes appear as a sea of white sand …

Surveys identified a series of Holocene Later Stone Age shell middens along the
westernmost extent of the Pinnacle Point estate near Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South …

This paper analyses pottery recovered from archaeological sites located in Massingir District
along the Elephant or Oliphant River (as it is known in South Africa), in the Limpopo Valley …