Rethinking the Middle to Later Stone Age transition in southern Africa-A perspective from the highveld of Eswatini

GD Bader, A Mabuza, DP Williams, M Will - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The MSA/LSA transition is a major shift in the African archaeological record, but questions
on its beginning remain debated. In southern Africa, most sites suggest an origin of LSA …

Lithic technological and spatial analysis of the final Pleistocene at Border Cave, South Africa

P de la Peña, F Colino, F d'Errico, L Wadley… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
This contribution focuses on the recently excavated lithic assemblage from Border Cave
Members 1 RGBS, 3 BS, 2 WA and 2 BS. These members were attributed by Beaumont to …

Pressure flaking to serrate bifacial points for the hunt during the MIS5 at Sibudu Cave (South Africa)

V Rots, C Lentfer, VC Schmid, G Porraz, NJ Conard - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Projectile technology is considered to appear early in the southern African Middle Stone Age
(MSA) and the rich and high resolution MSA sequence of Sibudu Cave in KwaZulu-Natal …

New excavations at border cave, KwaZulu-natal, South Africa

LR Backwell, F d'Errico, WE Banks… - Journal of Field …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT New excavations at Border Cave use high-resolution techniques, including FT-
IR, for sediment samples and thin sections of micromorphology blocks from stratigraphy …

The place beyond the trees: renewed excavations of the Middle Stone Age deposits at Olieboomspoort in the Waterberg Mountains of the South African Savanna …

A Val, P de la Peña, M Duval, S Bansal… - Archaeological and …, 2021 - Springer
Olieboomspoort is one of the few rock shelters in the vast interior of southern Africa
documenting pulses of occupation from the Acheulean until the end of the Later Stone Age …

The MIS5 Pietersburg at '28'Bushman Rock Shelter, Limpopo Province, South Africa

G Porraz, A Val, C Tribolo, N Mercier, P de La Peña… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
In the past few decades, a diverse array of research has emphasized the precocity of
technically advanced and symbolic practices occurring during the southern African Middle …

Revisiting Mwulu's Cave: new insights into the Middle Stone Age in the southern African savanna biome

P de la Peña, A Val, DJ Stratford, F Colino… - Archaeological and …, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, we present a revised stratigraphy and results of preliminary analyses of the
archaeological material from Mwulu's Cave. This arises from two excavation campaigns …

New ages from Boomplaas Cave, South Africa, provide increased resolution on late/terminal Pleistocene human behavioural variability

J Pargeter, E Loftus, A Mackay, P Mitchell… - … Research in Africa, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Boomplaas Cave, South Africa, contains a rich archaeological record, with
evidence of human occupation from> 66,000 years ago until the protohistoric period …

Burning, dumping, and site use during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic at Hohle Fels Cave, SW Germany

D Marcazzan, CE Miller, NJ Conard - Archaeological and Anthropological …, 2022 - Springer
Dumped deposits are a valuable source of information for inferring past behaviour. They
provide insights into site maintenance, social organization and settlement dynamics. Hohle …

The final MSA of eastern South Africa: a comparative study between Umbeli Belli and Sibhudu

GD Bader, C Sommer, NJ Conard… - … Research in Africa, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The end of the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa, often called the final MSA (∼ 40–28 ka),
represents one of the most understudied technocomplexes in this part of the world …