During 1992/3 nine Later Stone Age (LSA) coastal midden sites
ranging in age from 6960 BP to 290 BP, and representing 28
depositional units were excavated in the Blombosfontein Nature
Reserve and in the directly adjacent Blombos Estates, situated 20
km to the west of Still Bay, southern Cape, South Africa. This
monograph is based on the results derived from the author's
research of these sites, including more recent data. In this
monograph the term Blombosfontein i s used to cover both the
Blombosfontein Nature Reserve and the Blombos Estates. The original
excavations of 1992 revealed Middle Stone Age deposits but
excavation in these levels was limited and the age of the deposits
could not be determined. Subsequent excavations of the MSA levels
show that the BBC deposits range in age from over 140 000 years to
less than 300 years. Excavation of these MSA levels is continuing .
The primary objectives of the initial research at Blombosfontein
were to examine the economic and cultural diversity present within
and across these nine coastal middens. The core of the project
revolved around the excavation of the 9 sites and the subsequent
analysis and interpretation of the recovered data. Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Environment and
Palaeoenvironment; Chapter 3. Ethnohistory of the Southern Cape;
Chapter 4. Holocene Archaeology of the Southern Cape; Chapter 5.
Site Descriptions and Radiocarbon Dates; Chapter 6. Shellfish
Analysis; Chapter 7. Fauna: Mammals, Reptiles & Fish; Chapter
8. Cultural Artefacts; Chapter 9. Seasonality and Oxygen Isotope
Analysis; Chapter 10. Summary & Discussion.
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