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DOI	10.1080/0067270X.2020.1757887
	The role of the Cape's unique climatic boundaries in sustaining specialised pastoralists in southern Africa during the last 2000 years
	Russell, Thembi
通讯作者	Russell, T (corresponding author), Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Geog Archaeol & Environm Studies, Wits, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa.
来源期刊	AZANIA-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA
ISSN	0067-270X
EISSN	1945-5534
出版年	2020
卷号	55 期号:2 页码:242-257
英文摘要	Genetic analyses show that milch pastoralism existed in southern Africa for at least the last 1300 years. This paper addresses the question of how specialised milch pastoralists would have sustained their herds in the arid western half of southern Africa, where archaeological evidence shows their traces. This might be down to what Jared Diamond terms 'geographic luck', i.e. that pastoralists, whom we know moved rapidly to the southern and western Cape, discovered the winter rainfall and all year round rainfall areas that are unique in southern Africa and settled there. Good grazing and all year-round rainfall would have been found by moving between these zones and the summer rainfall zone of the neighbouring Northern and Eastern Cape Provinces. These zones fall outside the areas that were later settled by agropastoralist farmers. European mariner sightings of livestock along South Africa's shores from the end of the fifteenth century AD onward have previously been used to reconstruct the seasonal movements of pastoralists. There is, however, an inherent bias in these data caused by the prevailing wind patterns that determined the timing of mariners' arrival to the Cape.
英文关键词	milch pastoralists southern Africa Later Stone Age winter rainfall summer rainfall
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000538118700004
WOS关键词	WINTER-RAINFALL ZONE ; WESTERN CAPE ; NAMAQUALAND ; VARIABILITY ; DIVERSITY ; PATTERNS ; ORIGINS ; CATTLE ; SHEEP ; MARKS
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/2XILL650/369117
作者单位	[Russell, Thembi] Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Geog Archaeol & Environm Studies, Wits, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Russell, Thembi. The role of the Cape's unique climatic boundaries in sustaining specialised pastoralists in southern Africa during the last 2000 years[J],2020,55(2):242-257.
APA	Russell, Thembi.(2020).The role of the Cape's unique climatic boundaries in sustaining specialised pastoralists in southern Africa during the last 2000 years.AZANIA-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA,55(2),242-257.
MLA	Russell, Thembi."The role of the Cape's unique climatic boundaries in sustaining specialised pastoralists in southern Africa during the last 2000 years".AZANIA-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA 55.2(2020):242-257.

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