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DOI	10.1080/15564894.2016.1216476
	Early Maritime Desert Dwellers in Namaqualand, South Africa: A Holocene Perspective on Pleistocene Peopling
	Dewar, Genevieve; Stewart, Brian A.
通讯作者	Dewar, G (corresponding author), Univ Toronto Scarborough, Dept Anthropol, 1265 Mil Trail, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ISLAND & COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGY
ISSN	1556-4894
EISSN	1556-1828
出版年	2017
卷号	12 期号:1 页码:44-64
英文摘要	South Africa's northern Namaqualand coastal desert is the southern extension of the Namib. Today, this region is semi-desert with patchy subsistence resources and scarce, unpredictable rainfall. Yet this ancient desert landscape possesses residues of human activity stretching back into the Middle Pleistocene, evidenced by heavily weathered surface finds, including handaxes and Victoria West cores. Such old finds in so harsh an environment raise important questions: how do human movements into this area relate to local palaeoenvironmental changes, and how has this relationship changed through time? While no dated Middle Pleistocene sites presently exist to reconstruct the earliest hominin dispersals, several late Pleistocene sites now have chronostratigraphic sequences that can be brought to bear on these questions. This article presents chronological and subsistence-settlement data for one such site, Spitzkloof A Rockshelter in northern Namaqualand's rugged Richtersveld. Humans are shown to have visited the site very sporadically between approximate to 50,000 and 17,000 cal BP. Unlike most of the subcontinent, the most intensive occupations occur during early Marine Isotope Stage 2, when multiple proxies suggest enhanced humidity associated with intensified winter rainfall. We examine these data using the region's better-developed Holocene archaeological record to create predictions about the earliest coastal desert dwellers.
英文关键词	coastal desert Later Stone Age Middle Stone Age MIS 2 MIS 3 Namaqualand South Africa
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000394464500004
WOS关键词	MIDDLE STONE-AGE ; FECAL DEPOSITS HYRACEUM ; APOLLO 11 ROCKSHELTER ; OSTRICH EGGSHELL ; COMPLEX COGNITION ; SITE ; CAPE ; POLLEN ; PALEOENVIRONMENTS ; EXCAVATIONS
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/361696
作者单位	[Dewar, Genevieve] Univ Toronto Scarborough, Dept Anthropol, 1265 Mil Trail, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada; [Dewar, Genevieve; Stewart, Brian A.] Univ Witwatersrand, Rock Art Res Inst, Johannesburg, South Africa; [Stewart, Brian A.] Univ Michigan, Museum Anthropol Archaeol, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dewar, Genevieve,Stewart, Brian A.. Early Maritime Desert Dwellers in Namaqualand, South Africa: A Holocene Perspective on Pleistocene Peopling[J],2017,12(1):44-64.
APA	Dewar, Genevieve,&Stewart, Brian A..(2017).Early Maritime Desert Dwellers in Namaqualand, South Africa: A Holocene Perspective on Pleistocene Peopling.JOURNAL OF ISLAND & COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGY,12(1),44-64.
MLA	Dewar, Genevieve,et al."Early Maritime Desert Dwellers in Namaqualand, South Africa: A Holocene Perspective on Pleistocene Peopling".JOURNAL OF ISLAND & COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGY 12.1(2017):44-64.