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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... MIDDENS In Figure 6 , the post - Contact specimens ( open circles ) include proportion- ally more cattle than were found at Volstruisfontein . Because Haaskraal over- looks a historical cattle post at the foot of the talus slope , this ...
... MIDDENS In Figure 6 , the post - Contact specimens ( open circles ) include proportion- ally more cattle than were found at Volstruisfontein . Because Haaskraal over- looks a historical cattle post at the foot of the talus slope , this ...
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... middens are composed mainly of non - domestic 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 ...
... middens are composed mainly of non - domestic 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 ...
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... middens . Criteria for suspecting the stratigraphic integrity of a specimen are as fol- lows : ( a ) it occurs ... midden with well - preserved pieces of non - domestic fauna , but is surrounded by thinly distributed bone splinters that ...
... middens . Criteria for suspecting the stratigraphic integrity of a specimen are as fol- lows : ( a ) it occurs ... midden with well - preserved pieces of non - domestic fauna , but is surrounded by thinly distributed bone splinters that ...
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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