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Palaeoenvironments and chronology of the Damvlei Later Stone Age site, Free State, South Africa

hal.structure.identifierIRAMAT-Centre de recherche en physique appliquée à l’archéologie [IRAMAT-CRP2A]
hal.structure.identifierCentro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana [CENIEH]
dc.contributor.authorTOFFOLO, Michael
hal.structure.identifierIRAMAT-Centre de recherche en physique appliquée à l’archéologie [IRAMAT-CRP2A]
hal.structure.identifierArchéosciences Bordeaux
dc.contributor.authorTRIBOLO, Chantal
hal.structure.identifierThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem [HUJ]
dc.contributor.authorKOLSKA HORWITZ, Liora
hal.structure.identifierNational Museum, Bloemfontein
dc.contributor.authorROSSOUW, Lloyd
hal.structure.identifierTexas State University
dc.contributor.authorBOUSMAN, Britt
hal.structure.identifierArchéosciences Bordeaux
dc.contributor.authorRICHARD, Maïlys
hal.structure.identifierWeizmann Institute of Science [Rehovot, Israël]
dc.contributor.authorBOARETTO, Elisabetta
hal.structure.identifierInstitute for Archaeological Sciences
dc.contributor.authorMILLER, Christopher Evan
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-08T03:00:21Z
dc.date.available2024-02-08T03:00:21Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.issn0038-1969
dc.identifier.urihttps://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/187991
dc.description.abstractEnThe Modder River basin has been the focus of extensive surveys followed by targeted excavations of specific erosional gullies (known locally as dongas), where Middle and Later Stone Age artefacts and fossils are abundant. At Damvlei, a donga located on the left bank of the Modder, lithic artefacts and fossils were observed in the 1990s. Here we present the results of two seasons of fieldwork (2019/21) at this locality, as well as unpublished surface faunal remains collected in 1995/96. Damvlei formed as a result of overbank deposition of the Modder, as indicated by micromorphological analysis. The accumulation of the sedimentary sequence beneath the artefact-bearing levels started at 27±3 ka at the earliest, based on optically stimulated luminescence dating. Artefacts, faunal remains, and phytoliths show that the site is characterised by Holocene Later Stone Age technology in an open-grassland environment typical of the terminal Florisian Land Mammal Age. Damvlei expands our knowledge of the Later Stone Age in the western Free State, and highlights the need for more extensive dating programmes aimed at framing human occupation in the central interior of South Africa.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSouth African Archaeological Society
dc.subject.enLater Stone Age
dc.subject.enpalaeoenvironment
dc.subject.enalluvial
dc.subject.enFree State
dc.subject.enModder
dc.subject.enFlorisian
dc.title.enPalaeoenvironments and chronology of the Damvlei Later Stone Age site, Free State, South Africa
dc.typeArticle de revue
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Archéologie et Préhistoire
dc.subject.halPlanète et Univers [physics]/Sciences de la Terre/Géologie appliquée
bordeaux.journalSouth African Archaeological Bulletin
bordeaux.page57–74
bordeaux.volume78
bordeaux.hal.laboratoriesArchéosciences Bordeaux - UMR 6034*
bordeaux.issue219
bordeaux.institutionUniversité de Bordeaux
bordeaux.institutionUniversité Bordeaux Montaigne
bordeaux.institutionCNRS
bordeaux.peerReviewedoui
hal.identifierhal-04378185
hal.version1
hal.popularnon
hal.audienceInternationale
hal.origin.linkhttps://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-04378185v1
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