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DOI10.1007/978-94-017-7520-5_9
Late Quaternary Environmental Change and Human Occupation of the Southern African Interior
Burrough, Sallie L.
通讯作者Burrough, Sallie L.
会议名称Conference on Africa from Stages 6 to 2 - Population Dynamics and Palaeoenvironments
会议日期JUL 02-04, 2010
会议地点Cambridge, ENGLAND
英文摘要

The interior southern African basin (Kalahari) is a remarkable region, with a complex and dynamic environmental history and a long record of utilization by human populations during the late Quaternary. Paleoenvironmental reconstructions are beginning to provide a spatially detailed record of landscape and hydrological dynamics in the Kalahari, with a strong chronometric underpinning for records of environmental extremes. Theories concerning the distribution of early people in the landscape place great importance on the temporal dynamics of water availability, and may be particularly relevant in the Kalahari where there is significant evidence of hydrologic/climatic-driven landscape change. High amplitude environmental variability during MIS 6-2 is evidenced by periods of dune building within currently stabilized dunefields and the intermittent existence of large lacustrine systems such as Megalake Makgadikgadi that remain all but ephemerally dry under present-day conditions. That the wider Kalahari was, at times, a key resource for Stone Age populations is evident from the extensive occurrence of stone tools, most notably in association with the fluvial networks and lake basins of the Okavango-Chobe-Zambezi system. Today, these riparian corridors link the semiarid desert region to the southern subtropics and, in the past, drove environmental change in the Kalahari, potentially impacting the occupation and dispersal of hominins within the interior southern African basin.


英文关键词Kalahari Paleohydrology Paleoenvironmental change Dunes Lakes Stone Age archaeology
来源出版物AFRICA FROM MIS 6-2: POPULATION DYNAMICS AND PALEOENVIRONMENTS
ISSN1877-9077
出版年2016
页码161-174
ISBN978-94-017-7519-9
EISBN978-94-017-7520-5
出版者SPRINGER
类型Proceedings Paper
语种英语
国家England
收录类别CPCI-S
WOS记录号WOS:000379118600009
WOS关键词MIDDLE KALAHARI PALAEOLAKES ; OKAVANGO DELTA ; LAKE NGAMI ; STONE-AGE ; MAKGADIKGADI BASIN ; FORCING MECHANISMS ; LATE PLEISTOCENE ; THOUSAND YEARS ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; HUMAN-BEHAVIOR
WOS类目Paleontology
WOS研究方向Paleontology
资源类型会议论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/305424
作者单位Univ Oxford, Sch Geog & Environm, S Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3QY, England
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Burrough, Sallie L.. Late Quaternary Environmental Change and Human Occupation of the Southern African Interior[C]:SPRINGER,2016:161-174.
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