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Post date: 20/10/2015
Alternate Code & Name: Site RH-03
Site RH-03 comprises of an approximate 40x50m area, located on a stone outcrops. Lithic artefacts are scattered
about the outcrops with artefact densities approaching an average artefact ratio (artefacts: m²) of ≥15:1. The
primary raw material used comprises an unidentified stone, but what seems to be a fine grained metamorphic
material, green in color. Additional raw material used, but in far less quantities than the green stone includes a
siliceous black material, while a few lithics produced from quartzite and hornfels were identified. The assemblage is
ascribed to a mixed Volman (1984) MSA 2b-3 and LSA, consisting primarily of macrolithic samples, but including a
definite microlithic component. Typologically scrapers dominate the assemblage, but cores and flake-blades
formed notable parts of the MSA component of the assemblage, while cores, small scrapers and flakes comprised
the LSA component of the deposit. The site RH-03 deposits are typologically and technologically very similar other
Stone Age sites and low density Stone Age occurrences identified across the general study site; what sets the site
apart is the raw material used to produce artefacts from, inferred to reflect use of the immediate environment.