The Waterberg Plateau in the Northern Province, Republic of South Africa, in the Later Stone AgeThe aim of this book is firstly to establish chronology of Later Stone Age settlement in Waterber plateau and secondly to investigate the particular influence of the Waterberg ecosystem on Later Stone Age settlement patterns and on the lifestyle of the inhabitants and their utilisation of resources of this area. Finally, the most complex study presented here is the study of the influence of the immigrant Iron Age farmers on the indigenous Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers. |
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BACKGROUND TO THE RESEARCH AREA | 10 |
Interaction in the Waterberg region | 16 |
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agropastoralists animals artefacts assemblage Aukema Bantu Bantu speakers Bantu-speaking Belgium blade bladelet Botswana Breutz broken endstruck flake Bushmen Bushveld calibrated Cape capensis cent century contact situation copper cortical endstruck flake Denbow deposit Eastern Cape edible fruit endstruck flake 30 evidence excavated FIGURE Goergap GOERGAP 113 Goergap shelter groups haematite hunter hunter-gatherers hunting I H G F E D interaction Iron Age Kalahari Kirstenbos Kistner Later Stone Age LAYER manufacture Marais medicinal Middle Stone Age NISP QSP MN Northern Province ochre Ongelukskraal Oreotragus ostrich eggshell beads Parkington percussion caps Point fragment Point/linkshaft fragment polished pottery Procavia quartz crystal radiocarbon dates rainmaking Raphicerus recovered relatively ritual rock art rock paintings rock shelters Schlömann Schoonraad Schurfpoort scrapers social South African Archaeological SPECIES NISP QSP square Stech Stone Age occupation Stone Age sites stone tool Sylvicapra trade Transvaal Tswana utilisation Vaalpense Wadley Waterberg Waterberg plateau