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Excavations in the Skukuza area, Kruger National Park, South Africa

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This application is for an excavation and destruction permit for analysis of material culture from TSH 1 and SK 17.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 18:08

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1564

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CitationReferenceTypeDate Retrieved
Burrett, R., 2007. The Garonga ceramic assemblage. Southern African Humanities, 19, pp.153–166.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Wilmsen. E, Denbow, J. , D. Killick, D. Rosenstein,& P. Thebe. 2009. The Social Geography of Pottery in Botswana as Reconstructed by Optical Petrography, Journal of African Archaeology, 7(1):3-39
Huffman, T 1990. Broederstroom and the origins of cattle –keeping in southern Africa. African Studies 49: 1-12
Huffman, T. 1993. Broederstroom and the central cattle pattern. South African Journal of science 89: 220-226
Huffman, T. 2007.Handbook to the Iron Age: The Archaeology of Pre-Colonial Farming Societies in Southern Africa. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press: KwaZulu Natal
Jordaan, G. 2011. Letaba: Between spaces; Reanalysis of Early Farming Settlements on the Letaba Confluence. Unpublished Honours thesis. University of Pretoria.
Pillay, A. E, Punyadeera, C, Jacobson, L & Eriksen, J. 2000. Analysis of Ancient Pottery and Ceramic Objects Using X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry. X-Ray Spectrom 29: 53-62
Plug, I 1988, Hunters and Herders: An archaeozoological study of some prehistoric communities in the Kruger National Park, University of Pretoria, Pretoria
Tite, M.S. 1999. Pottery Production, Distribution, and Consumption-The Contribution of the Physical Sciences. In Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory,vol. 6, No 3.
Meyer, A.1986, ‘n kultuurhistoriese interpretasie van die ystertydperk in die nasionale Krugerwildtuin, Universiteit van Pretoria, Pretoria
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Ash midden at SK 17
ASh heaps in front ground
Archaeological features
 
 

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