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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... doubt , except for a few crucial details . Firstly , the Ovis / Capra remains are concentrated at the rear of the shelter , whereas the pottery is widely distributed . This cannot be ascribed to poor bone preservation at the front ...
... doubt , except for a few crucial details . Firstly , the Ovis / Capra remains are concentrated at the rear of the shelter , whereas the pottery is widely distributed . This cannot be ascribed to poor bone preservation at the front ...
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... doubt on its stratigraphic integrity , and that of its immediate neighbour . The other three specimens , selected for closer scrutiny in the previous exercise , are under relatively light - density areas ( 1-4 specimens per block ) . In ...
... doubt on its stratigraphic integrity , and that of its immediate neighbour . The other three specimens , selected for closer scrutiny in the previous exercise , are under relatively light - density areas ( 1-4 specimens per block ) . In ...
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... doubt . SUMMARY OF CRITERIA FOR SELECTING SAMPLES The goal of this exercise is to select bone fragments with the least doubtful contexts , to be submitted for direct radiocarbon dating by the accelerator method . This is essential in ...
... doubt . SUMMARY OF CRITERIA FOR SELECTING SAMPLES The goal of this exercise is to select bone fragments with the least doubtful contexts , to be submitted for direct radiocarbon dating by the accelerator method . This is essential in ...
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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