Herders and Foragers on Kasteelberg: Interim Report of Excavations 1999-2002

Sadr, Karim; Smith, Andrew B.; Plug, Ina; Orton, Jayson; Mutti, Belinda

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“…The most common unit of analysis for archaeological OES beads is external diameter; previous studies of the southern African hunting/herding transition found that older beads are often smaller than younger beads (e.g., Jacobson 1987a, b;Orton et al 2005;Sadr et al 2003;Smith et al 1991Smith et al , 1995Smith et al , 2001). This diameter change also appears to be present at Mlambalasi.…”

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Excavations at Mlambalasi Rockshelter: a Terminal Pleistocene to Recent Iron Age Record in Southern Tanzania

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Section: Beadsmentioning

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Excavations at Mlambalasi Rockshelter: a Terminal Pleistocene to Recent Iron Age Record in Southern Tanzania

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“…Sadr et al's more extensive excavation at six Kasteelberg sites demonstrates that all sites, even presumed hunter sites, contain significant proportion of sheep remains. Sadr et al (2003) suggest that some sites were brief camps of inland foragers with sheep dating to the early first millennium AD, who also hunted steenbok, and a second group of sites dates to the late first millennium AD and shows herder/foragers who also hunted seals and shellfish. By the early second millennium, some of these shoreline groups began to focus on sealing and sheepherding.…”

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“…Coastal "megamiddens" and skeletons show the use of coastal resources was much greater than is known ethnographically (Jerardino and Yates, 1997;Sealy and Pfeiffer, 2000). Many later Stone Age hunter-gatherers practiced intensive or delayed-return economies, and considerable change in lifeways can be seen over time, even at the same sites (Hall, 1990;Jerardino, 1998;Plug et al 2003;Robbins et al, 1996;Sadr, 2001;Sadr et al, 2003;Sealey and Pfeiffer, 2000).…”

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What Is a Hunter-Gatherer? Variation in the Archaeological Record of Eastern and Southern Africa

Kusimba

2005

J Archaeol Res

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This article reviews the recent history of the archaeology of African huntergatherers, focusing on debates around the origins of modern humans and the destiny of hunter-gatherers with the advent of food production. African archaeologists are developing an increasing appreciation for the diversity of African hunter-gatherer societies. Understandings of hunter-gatherers based primarily on ethnography are being successfully challenged and extended.

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“…Despite the existence of large faunal collections from well-excavated Late Stone Age sites in the Western Cape, sheep/goat has been identified, from a recent faunal sample, only at Kasteelberg north of Cape Town (Sadr et al, 2003). However, previous faunal samples from Kasteelberg yielded no sheep/goat identifications; only sheep and indeterminate mediumsized bovidae (Klein, 1986).…”

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Goats (Capra hircus), the Khoekhoen and Pastoralism: Current Evidence from Southern Africa

Badenhorst¹

2006

Afr Archaeol Rev

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The current archaeological evidence for the presence of goats among herder societies in southern Africa is reviewed. Presumably, the Khoekhoen obtained goats from Bantu-speaking farmers, but the exact timing of diffusion is still unknown. Archaeological evidence for the presence of goats in the Western Cape remains, to date, elusive, despite historical reference to goats. It is very often impossible to distinguish sheep from goat based on fragmentary archaeological remains such as those commonly found in southern Africa. Intrinsic physiological characteristics make goats suitable farm animals, and they may commonly have acted as sheep-leaders during prehistoric times, a practice noted amongst the Khoekhoen during the early part of the 19th century. Acting as sheep-leaders might have required herders to deliberately keep goat numbers low. There are few depictions of goats in southern African rock art. Résume La preuve archéologique actuelle pour la présence de chèvres parmi les sociétés de berger dans Afrique méridionale est réexaminée. Vraisemblablement, le Khoekhoen a obtenu des chèvres de fermiers parlant Bantu, mais le moment exact de diffusion est toujours inconnu. La preuve archéologique pour la présence de chèvres dans les restes de Cap de l'ouest, dater, insaisissable, malgré la référence historique aux chèvres. C'est très souvent impossible de distinguer le mouton de la chèvre basée sur les restes archéologiques fragmentaires tels que ces ordinairement trouvé dans Afrique méridionale. Les caractéristiques physiologiques intrinsèques font des chèvres les animaux de ferme convenables, et ils ont pu servir ordinairement des mouton-dirigeants pendant les temps préhistoriques, une pratique réputée parmi le Khoekhoen pendant la première partie du 19e siècle. Servir des moutondirigeants pourrait avoir exigé que les bergers aient exprès gardé le niveau bas de nombres de chèvre. Il y a peu de représentations de chèvres dans l'art de rocher Africain méridional.

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Herders and Foragers on Kasteelberg: Interim Report of Excavations 1999-2002

Cited by 50 publications

References 7 publications

Excavations at Mlambalasi Rockshelter: a Terminal Pleistocene to Recent Iron Age Record in Southern Tanzania

Excavations at Mlambalasi Rockshelter: a Terminal Pleistocene to Recent Iron Age Record in Southern Tanzania

What Is a Hunter-Gatherer? Variation in the Archaeological Record of Eastern and Southern Africa

Goats (Capra hircus), the Khoekhoen and Pastoralism: Current Evidence from Southern Africa

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