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SAM_AA1588

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Description

ObjectFormType: 

  • Mastic Samples

ObjectMaterialType: 

ObjectTechniqueType: 

  • Hafted Implement

Colours: 

  • Brown

DistinguishingFeatures: 

Lab No.  Accession/Site Level Typology Sample Type Fragment Dimensions Total Weight Including Vial
1588 SAM AA1588 N/A Hafted implement Fragments in container 4mmX2mm; remainder all <1mm 2.28g
History

AgeComment: 

This implement was recovered from most likely a Later Stone Age burial contexts.

GeologicalPeriod: 

  • Holocene

PlaceOfUse: 

  • Knysna

CulturalAssociation: 

  • LSA

Provenance: 

This specimen, described in the accession catalogue as a stone implement hafted in cement, was collected from a cave near Kynsna by J. S. Henkel before October 1912 (see below for details on the acquisition of this piece). Goodwin (1929) describes this piece as follows:

“One [other] hafted stone implement from this area is housed in the South African Museum. It consists of a similar mass of cement attaching a flat unworked flake of slate to a stick. This was discovered in a cave near Knysna, and is mentioned in a letter from Mr. Henkel to Peringuey (S. A. M., 11th October, 1912): ‘I attach a sketch with measurements of an implement found in a cave. Undoubtedly it is of the same kind as figured in Plate xix, 150. I can give you no further particulars at present, but am sending this hurried note to report the find. As apparently the implements are rare’ (Plate XLII).”

ReferenceList: 

Citation
Goodwin, A. J. H. (1929) “The Wilton Industry”. Annals of the South African Museum 27: 251-276.
Clark, J. D. (1959). The Prehistory of Southern Africa. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books.
 
 

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