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Request for permit to excavate at LRC3, Mpumalanga

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Previously, I identified the Later Stone Age site named LRC3, among others, as key to understanding the prehistory of precolonial hunter-gatherers, as well as their interactions with others, in Mpumalanga (Maseko 2021). Following from this, my current project seeks to carry out excavations at this site, to establish the site's occupation chronology and tie it to the rest of the region. Based on observation of surface scatters from recent visits, the site potentially contains pre-contact levels, significant for identifying change in the area's archaeological past. The site is located in central Mpumalanga Province.

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The archaeology of central Mpumalanga requires urgent scholarly attention. There is great scientific potential for archaeological research in this area; however, very little research has been done. Any future research plans in this regard are threatened by coal-mining activities, which are expanding at an alarming rate. It is, therefore, important that archaeological sites in central Mpumalanga are identified, recorded and studied as rapidly as possible, and that their contribution to archaeological understandings of the southern African past is realised. Without this urgent intervention, this area’s cultural heritage stands the risk of being destroyed and lost forever. My project aims to interdigitate excavated material culture with other evidential strands, including rock art and ethnography, to determine if, how, and when herder communities became part of the social makeup in central Mpumalanga. In turn, this novel research will contribute to the lacking Stone Age research in Mpumalanga and to the re-writing of precolonial history on an archaeological period that we know little about, from an emic perspective.

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Friday, May 26, 2023 - 13:02

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21444

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Surface finds (pottery) from LRC3
Rock art images from LRC3
 
 

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