Changing Social Relations in the Thukela Basin, Natal 7000-2000 BP

Mazel, Aron

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“…Accompanying this is the abandonment of the LSA material record. The density of LSA stone tools in the Eastern Cape (Hall 1986), Thukela Basin (Mazel 1989), Thamaga (Sadr 2002) and also in the middle Limpopo Valley (Van Doornum 2005: 183) all decreased considerably, regardless of forager-farmer proximity. However, LSA materials did not disappear altogether, as Hall (2000) shows in the Madikwe region of North West province where he found a cache of stone tools in a Moloko homestead dating to between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries AD.…”

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“…Generally, archaeologists focus on the pre-ceramic levels of the LSA, which are well preserved and have not, like the upper levels in many rock shelters, been disturbed by domesticated animals. Instead, the last 2 000 years are often lumped into broad categories (for example, Lombard et al 2012), homogenising the great degree of diversity recorded in many studies across southern Africa (such as Mazel 1989;Hall 1994;Walker 1994;Van Doornum 2005;Van der Ryst 2006;Forssman 2014a, b). Much of this variability was the result of contact between foragers and farmers and one outcome from these interactions, which is the focus of this paper, was a shift in forager settlement patterns (see Moore 1985;Hall & Smith 2000).…”

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“…However, LSA materials did not disappear altogether, as Hall (2000) shows in the Madikwe region of North West province where he found a cache of stone tools in a Moloko homestead dating to between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries AD. There are also homesteads in KwaZulu-Natal, which were occupied from the mid-second millennium AD that contain LSA stone tools, such as Clarke's Shelter, Diamond 1 and Mhlwazini (Mazel 1989(Mazel , 1990. Here, Mazel (1990) believes that foragers at first moved towards the central Thukela Basin in order to interact with incoming farmers but when these groups settled closer to the escarpment, foragers possibly began occupying homesteads and even producing food.…”

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“…Mazel (1989b: 4-7) suggests that these finds are only a few elements of a much larger mutually supportive, integrated exchange system. Other studies have focused on the possibility of how contact with farmers may have affected hunter-gatherer populations and changed social dynamics for example in gender roles and production through inter-marriage and exchange ties (Mazel 1989a Wadley 1996: 1-2, 11).…”

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African archaeology without frontiers: papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress

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Poison arrows and bone utensils in late Pleistocene eastern Africa: evidence from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar

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