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Excavation of Red Balloon Rock Shelter

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I wish to conduct a test excavation in Red Balloon Rock Shelter. There is a Middle Stone Age occupation and I wish to obtain dates for this. Limpopo.

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The earliest archaeological sites presently known on the Waterberg plateau contain Middle Stone Age cultural material in rock shelters and in the open, but none has been dated yet and it is important to obtain a chronology. The sites are unlikely to be older than 300 000 years ago or younger than 30 000 years ago because this is the span of Middle Stone Age ages elsewhere in South Africa. Assuming that some of the plateau Middle Stone Age sites were as young as 30 000 years ago, there is a curious 29 000 year old gap in occupation of the Waterberg plateau. Later Stone Age occupation on the plateau dates only to the last 1000 years. We can speculate that the plateau was abandoned for environmental reasons that remain obscure until dates and environmental proxies become available. Understanding the hiatus in occupation and obtaining dates for the sequence is a major research objective. The demographic movement into the Waterberg at about 1000 years ago is unprecedented elsewhere in South Africa. Hunter-gatherers and farmers appear to have arrived on the plateau simultaneously as part of a symbiotic relationship that lasted for several hundred years.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 08:46

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15121

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