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Temporary export of limpet shells from TC, SBF and GFD

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This application seeks permission to export food waste shells for serial oxygen isotope measurements from three Later Stone Age sites to the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. A permit for destructive sampling has been acquired from the provincial heritage agency, Heritage Western Cape. The three sites, Steenbokfontein (SBF), Tortoise Cave (TC) and Grootrif D (GFD), are located along the West Coast in the Western Cape.

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Shellfishing was an important subsistence strategy for Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers living along the West Coast, as evidenced by the abundant shell deposits found in cave sites and megamiddens throughout the region. However, the changing importance of coastal resources for hunter-gatherers spanning the marked climate shifts of the Holocene and the introduction of domesticated animals to the region has long been disputed. This project will examine shellfishing strategies at both cave and open midden sites from c. 8000 cal BP to c. 1000 cal BP. Principally, the project seeks to understand how people adapted their occupation patterns and subsistence behaviours during periods of climatic amelioration and deterioration, population growth, and with the arrival of domesticates to the region. Additionally, this approach will provide detailed, seasonal reconstructions of oceanographic conditions across the period of study. Methods Well-preserved limpets of the species Scutellastra granatina and Scutellastra argenvillei have been selected from the archaeological stores of these sites, with the help of the original excavator, Dr Antonieta Jerardino. The waste shells will be exported to the Research Laboratory for Archaeology, at Oxfor University. Here, they will be sectioned and sampled at high-resolution for oxygen isotope analyses.

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Tuesday, May 23, 2017 - 13:20

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11087

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Jeradino, A (1993) Mid-to late-Holocene sea-level fluctuations: the archaeological evidence at Tortoise Cave, southwestern Cape, South Africa. S. Afr J Sci, 89, 481-481. Jerardino A (2010) Large shell middens in Lamberts Bay, South Africa: a case of hunter-gatherer resource intensification. J Archaeol Sci 37:2291–2302. Jerardino, A (2013) Two complementary West Coast Holocene lithic assemblages from Elands Bay and Lamberts Bay: implications for local changes in tool kit and group mobility. S Afr Arch Bull, 68(198), 188-199.
 
 

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