An early date for cattle from Namaqualand, South Africa: implications for the origins of herding in southern Africa

Orton, Jayson; Mitchell, Peter; Klein, Richard G.; Steele, Teresa E.; Horsburgh, K. Ann

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“…Land form changes and vegetation or ground cover shifts associated with the mid Holocene sea-level rise and supposed aridity may have played a part in this, but occupations are documented during this period slightly further north at Steenbokfontein and beyond ( Jerardino and Yates 1996;Orton et al 2013).…”

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“…John Parkington et al of ceramics in the record (Orton et al 2013). At Elands Bay Cave, the short period immediately after the regional appearance of stock and ceramics, until about 1,500 years ago, is seemingly a period of transition, marked by the delayed change in a number of primary observations, both economic and artifactual.…”

Section: Journal Of Island and Coastal Archaeology 233mentioning

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Strandloping as a Resource-Gathering Strategy in the Cape, South African Holocene Later Stone Age: The Verloren Vlei Record

Parkington

Fisher

Poggenpoel

et al. 2014

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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Elands Bay and adjacent coastline near the mouth of the Verloren vlei on the South African Atlantic coast offered Later Stone Age foragers a variety of marine, estuarine, and terrestrial food resources. We suggest that strandloping (beachwalking or beachcombing) by latest Holocene foragers as a regular practice constituted an important component in their repertoire of subsistence activities. Washed-up mussels, seals, birds, whales, and other recently dead animals would have been available to such strandlopers. We distinguish strandloping as a subsistence practice from the procurement of living prey, including shellfish, mammals, birds, and other animals. The Holocene archaeological record of the Elands Bay area suggests changes through time in resource use, and these changes appear to be recognizable in patterns of shellfish gathering. During the latest part of the Holocene, between about 1,500 and 300 years ago, subsistence practices display a distinctive character that perhaps conforms more strongly than previously to what we conceive of as strandloping.

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Section: Journal Of Island and Coastal Archaeology 233mentioning

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Strandloping as a Resource-Gathering Strategy in the Cape, South African Holocene Later Stone Age: The Verloren Vlei Record

Parkington

Fisher

Poggenpoel

et al. 2014

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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“…The study used interviews, visual participatory methods in the form of photo elicitation (Harper, 2002;Liebenberg, 2009;Wang & Burris, 1997), transect walk techniques administered in Sesotho (vernacular language in Lesotho), and the life history approach (Orton, Mitchell, Klein, Steele, & Horsburgh, 2013;Trahar, 2006) as methods of data collection. A group of 30 snowball-sampled herders aged between 18 and 45 years, from the three main geographic zones (lowlands, foothills, and highlands) participated in the study.…”

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Indigenous knowledge/s of survival: implications for lifelong learning among the Basotho herding fraternity

Morojele

2017

Educ. res. soc. change.

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This article foregrounds Basotho male herders' interaction with their environment as a productive platform for informal learning activities poised to address the herders' immediate and context-specific needs. Indeed, understanding how the herders interact and learn through their daily engagements with their environments has a potential to provide substantive baseline insights that could inform Lesotho's nonformal education providers and policy-making forums. Drawing on indigenous knowledge theory, the article explicates the sociocultural perspective of indigenous knowledge with emphasis on how it is acquired and applied by male Basotho herders in order to improve their lives and address their daily herding challenges. The study adopted a qualitative research methodology with a sample of 30 snowball-selected Basotho male herders using interviews, transect walk, and photo voice as its methods of data collection. The data were analysed using the pattern coding method. The findings revealed two main forms of indigenous knowledge that the herders acquired through the herding practice namely, indigenous knowledge as local science and indigenous knowledge as local practice. The study recommends more scientific research that documents Lesotho's specific indigenous knowledge-to develop a holistic nonformal education curriculum and to nurture the rare indigenous knowledge skills of the Basotho male herders.

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“…Cattle, sheep and goats take centre stage in archaeozoological studies of the last 2,000 years, from their introduction and spread (see Sadr 2008bSadr , 2013Smith 2014 for overviews; also Orton et al 2013;Russell and Lander 2015) to their importance in subsistence economies (e.g., Arnold 2008;Arnold et al 2013;De Wet-Bronner 1994;Plug 1999b;Plug and Voigt 1985;Voigt 1983) and centrality in sociopolitical and settlement organisation (e.g., Badenhorst 2009Badenhorst , 2010Hall 1986;Huffman 1993Huffman , 1998Huffman , 2001Huffman , 2010; see also Smith et al 2010). For the Later Stone Age, coastal and seasonal subsistence strategies are also well represented in the literature (e.g., Dewar 2008;Jerardino 1997Jerardino , 2014Jerardino et al 2009;Plug et al 2010).…”

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New Directions in South African Archaeozoology of the Last 2,000 Years

2016

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An early date for cattle from Namaqualand, South Africa: implications for the origins of herding in southern Africa

Abstract: When did cattle come to South Africa? Radiocarbon dates on a newly found cow horn indicates a time in the early first millennium AD. In a study of the likely context for the advent of cattle herding, the authors favour immigrants moving along a western route through Namibia.

Cited by 89 publications

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Strandloping as a Resource-Gathering Strategy in the Cape, South African Holocene Later Stone Age: The Verloren Vlei Record

Strandloping as a Resource-Gathering Strategy in the Cape, South African Holocene Later Stone Age: The Verloren Vlei Record

Indigenous knowledge/s of survival: implications for lifelong learning among the Basotho herding fraternity

New Directions in South African Archaeozoology of the Last 2,000 Years

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