Beyond the drip-line: A high-resolution open-air Holocene hunter-gatherer sequence from highland Lesotho

Peter Mitchell; Ina Plug; Geoffrey Bailey; Ruth Charles; Amanda Esterhuysen; Julia Thorp; Adrian Parker; Stephan Woodborne

doi:10.1017/S0003598X00062025

Beyond the drip-line: A high-resolution open-air Holocene hunter-gatherer sequence from highland Lesotho

Peter Mitchell, Ina Plug, Geoffrey Bailey, Ruth Charles, Amanda Esterhuysen, Julia Thorp, Adrian Parker, Stephan Woodborne

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The activities of hunter-gatherers are often captured in rockshelters, but here the authors present a study of a riverside settlement outside one, with a rich sequence from 1300 BC to AD 800 Thanks to frequent flooding, periods of occupation were sealed and could be examined in situ The phytolith and faunal record, especially fish, chronicle changing climate and patterns of subsistence, emphasising that the story here is no predictable one-way journey from huntergatherer to farmer Right up to the period of the famous nineteenth-century rock paintings in the surrounding Maloti-Drakensberg region, adaptation was dynamic and historically contingent.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1225-1242
Number of pages	18
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	85
Issue number	330
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00062025
Publication status	Published - Dec 2011

Keywords

Fishing
Hunter-gatherers
Intensification
Late Holocene
Neoglacial
Nondirectionality
Phytoliths
Southern Africa
Space

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