Journal
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 36, Issue 12, Pages 2713-2729Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.08.011
Keywords
Surface sites; West coast of South Africa; Radiocarbon dating; Marine shell; Stone tools
Funding
- Anglo-American Corporation
- Wenner-Gren Foundation
- German Research Foundation [SFB-389]
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Archaeological surface finds are difficult to date. There are several useful methods, but each requires special circumstances and has one drawback or another. On the west coast of South Africa marine shell are abundant on surface sites but they are rarely dated because they are perceived to be in disturbed context and in questionable association with artefacts. This paper attempts to rectify this misconception and shows that, although far from perfect, a large suite of surface dates can shed as much light as excavated data. On the Vredenburg Peninsula they help refute the hypothesis that two economically and culturally distinct populations shared this pre-colonial landscape since 2000 BR (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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