Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1994 - Natural history |
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... fauna . The clearest pro- jection ( Fig . 6C ) reveals a sequence of two pre - Contact faunal middens followed by a thick , possibly two - phase post - Contact midden . These separations are vis- ible but less clearly defined in the ...
... fauna . The clearest pro- jection ( Fig . 6C ) reveals a sequence of two pre - Contact faunal middens followed by a thick , possibly two - phase post - Contact midden . These separations are vis- ible but less clearly defined in the ...
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... Faunal density : > 75 > 50 > 40 > 30 ( g / block ) Fig . 6. Haaskraal Shelter and talus : composite sections showing positions of livestock by taxon , relative to lenses of dense ( unsorted ) fauna , termed bone middens . European ...
... Faunal density : > 75 > 50 > 40 > 30 ( g / block ) Fig . 6. Haaskraal Shelter and talus : composite sections showing positions of livestock by taxon , relative to lenses of dense ( unsorted ) fauna , termed bone middens . European ...
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... faunal lenses , termed bone middens . Criteria for suspecting the stratigraphic integrity of a specimen are as fol ... fauna , but is surrounded by thinly distributed bone splinters that contrast with its own preservation conditions ...
... faunal lenses , termed bone middens . Criteria for suspecting the stratigraphic integrity of a specimen are as fol ... fauna , but is surrounded by thinly distributed bone splinters that contrast with its own preservation conditions ...
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abbreviated AMS DATES archaeological back of Haaskraal Bos taurus burrow Cape Town cattle remains cent confidence level composite sections showing Contact horizon Contact livestock context deepest GTPW sherd deepest recovered livestock DIRECT DATING DISTRIBUTION OF LIVESTOCK drip line European artefacts European livestock fibre-tempered wares Gastropoda Haaskraal Shelter historical livestock holotype Horizontal positions hunter-gatherer incisor Khoi sherd kraal wall lowermost mandible fragment non-domestic fauna outliers overlying post-Contact Ovis aries Right Ovis/Capra paratypes pastoralists post-Contact livestock pre-Contact levels pre-Contact livestock pre-Contact specimens pre-European livestock proximal fragment Adult radiocarbon dating rear recovered livestock relative relative to variable Roman numerals scientific name Seacow River Bushmen Seacow River valley Second phalanx sections showing positions selected pot sherds Shelter and talus shelter fills Sneeuberg SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM specimen below Contact spits deep stone kraals stratigraphic integrity Synonymy talus slope taxon trekboers trench upper levels upper Seacow River upper valley vertebra Volstruisfontein