Patterns in stone: The lithic assemblage from Dunefield Midden, Western Cape, South Africa
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Orton, J
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Univ Cape Town, Dept Archaeol, ZA-7700 Rondebosch, South AfricaUniv Cape Town, Dept Archaeol, ZA-7700 Rondebosch, South Africa
Orton, J
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[1] Univ Cape Town, Dept Archaeol, ZA-7700 Rondebosch, South Africa
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SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN
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2002年
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57卷
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175期
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10.2307/3889104
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K85 [文物考古];
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0601 ;
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Dunefield Midden is a Later Stone Age hunter-gatherer campsite displaying a series of short occupations between c. 900 NP and c. 600 BP that post-dates a far earlier one. The lithic assemblage can be split into two chronologically distinct components: (1) an almost exclusively quartz scatter that is highly expedient in manufacture and completely dominated by backer pieces and bipolar cores; (2) an older, much smaller, wind-abraded scatter comprising a wider variety of both raw materials and tool classes that indicates a more formalized industry. The former displays discrete stoneworking areas while the latter has no clear spatial structure. In keeping with the expedience of the flaked assemblage, a high degree of re-use is evident on the hammerstones, anvils and grindstones. All results have been examined via a density-based spatial analysis. The possibility of not recovering cultural remains or spatial patterning in small excavations of large shell middens is considered.
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Univ S Africa, Dept Anthropol & Archaeol, ZA-0003 Pretoria, South Africa
Habitat Landscape Architects, ZA-0060 Garsfontein East, South AfricaUniv S Africa, Dept Anthropol & Archaeol, ZA-0003 Pretoria, South Africa
van der Ryst, Maria
Kuesel, Siegwalt
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Habitat Landscape Architects, ZA-0060 Garsfontein East, South AfricaUniv S Africa, Dept Anthropol & Archaeol, ZA-0003 Pretoria, South Africa