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Export permit for sediment samples Kathu Pan 1 and Kathu Pan 9

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The sites of Kathu Pan contain a sequence of Holocene sediments that hold promise for the study of Holocene climate change in the interior of Southern Africa. Pollen analysis by Van Zinderen-Bakker demonstrated the presence of pollen in these sediments, an observation that has been replicated by Louis Scott. During the 2014 excavation season at Kathu Pan 1 a new series of samples was taken for isotopic and pollen analysis from exposed profiles of the Holocene sequence.

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The sites of Kathu Pan contain a sequence of Holocene sediments that hold promise for the study of Holocene climate change in the interior of Southern Africa. Pollen analysis by Van Zinderen-Bakker demonstrated the presence of pollen in these sediments, an observation that has been replicated by Louis Scott. During the 2014 excavation season at Kathu Pan 1, Vasa Lukich and Magdalena Sobol-- PhD students in the Department of Earth Science at the University of Toronto-- undertook intensive fine-grained sampling of exposed profiles at Kathu Pan 1 and 9 as a pilot stage of their PhD research projects. Meghan Thibodeau-- a Masters student at Simon Fraser University-- also took a series of micromorphology blocks that she will analyze under the supervision of Dr. Francesco Berna. The goal of this research is to test the possibility of developing a multi-proxy Holocene climate record for the Kathu sites at a fine grained time scale. The goal is to identify not only long-term climate fluctuations but also shorter term shifts in climate that would have had a substantial impact on human adaptations. The climate record for the interior of South Africa remains poorly understood so that this research has potential to make a significant contribution to the study of climate change and archaeology. Export will allow for the use of instrumentation available at the University of Toronto that is not currently available in South Africa to develop analytical protocols that if successful can then be applied to a broader based study. The pollen analysis is being undertaken in collaboration with Louis Scott and all recovered pollen will be analyzed with the reference collections at the University of the Free State.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 20:15

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6259

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CitationReferenceTypeDate Retrieved
Porat, Naomi, et al. "New radiometric ages for the Fauresmith industry from Kathu Pan, southern Africa: Implications for the Earlier to Middle Stone Age transition." Journal of Archaeological Science 37.2 (2010): 269-283.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Van Zinderen Bakker, E. M., and J. A. Coetzee. "A review of late Quaternary pollen studies in east, central and southern Africa." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 55.1 (1988): 155-174.
Butzer, K.W., 1984a. Late quaternary environments in South Africa. In: Vogel, J.C. (Ed.), Late Cenozoic Palaeoclimates of the Southern Hemisphere. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 235–264.
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  1. File Kathu Pan Sediment Export List.xlsx
 
 

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