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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... radiocarbon dating . The sherds form a narrow , well - defined band within the shelter , and matching sherds display only minor vertical distribution within the band . In contrast to Volstruisfontein ( Fig . 3A ) , there are no Khoi ...
... radiocarbon dating . The sherds form a narrow , well - defined band within the shelter , and matching sherds display only minor vertical distribution within the band . In contrast to Volstruisfontein ( Fig . 3A ) , there are no Khoi ...
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... radiocarbon dating by the accelerator method . This is essential in the light of the revised dates ( Sealy & Yates 1994 ) of apparently early , but actually intrusive sheep remains at other sites , dated only by conventional 14C methods ...
... radiocarbon dating by the accelerator method . This is essential in the light of the revised dates ( Sealy & Yates 1994 ) of apparently early , but actually intrusive sheep remains at other sites , dated only by conventional 14C methods ...
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... dating samples . Conventional radiocarbon dating of charcoal from a contiguous block suggests that the earliest specimen is 500600 years old , but another charcoal sample from the same level at the front of the shelter is c . 1200 years ...
... dating samples . Conventional radiocarbon dating of charcoal from a contiguous block suggests that the earliest specimen is 500600 years old , but another charcoal sample from the same level at the front of the shelter is c . 1200 years ...
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abbreviated Adult Adult Adult archaeological aries Ovis aries back of Haaskraal Bos taurus Bos burrow Cape Town cattle remains cent confidence level composite sections showing Contact horizon 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 hunter-gatherer incisor Karoo Khoi sherd kraal wall lowermost mandible fragment non-domestic fauna outliers overlying post-Contact Ovis aries Ovis Ovis/Capra paratypes pastoralists post-Contact livestock pre-Contact levels pre-Contact livestock pre-Contact specimens pre-European livestock 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 taurus Bos taurus taxon trekboers trench upper Seacow River upper valley vertebra Volstruisfontein