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Post date: 06/10/2015
Consisting of pots imbedded in anthills. At a few of these sites, intact vessels were found embedded into the anthill. These pots were filled with water and covered with rocks and sticks. This was done in order to capture the ants that would
fall into the water. Some of these sites are only represented by fragmented ceramics of which a large number was decorated. These sites vary in age from archaeological to more recent judging from the recent disturbances of some of the find sites. The ceramic decorations found on the ceramic fragments cannot be used to date the sites because the
ceramic facies, known as Letaba ceramics, are associated with dates from 1600 AD to recent times. This process of ant harvesting is still practised today, the tools just differ from ceramics to plastic bucket