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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... shallow , stony , leached , devoid of visible stratigraphy and disturbed by burrows . These disadvantages are offset by very high yields of artefacts and fauna per unit volume of matrix . Such yields repay the rigorous excavation and ...
... shallow , stony , leached , devoid of visible stratigraphy and disturbed by burrows . These disadvantages are offset by very high yields of artefacts and fauna per unit volume of matrix . Such yields repay the rigorous excavation and ...
Page 43
... shallow accumulations of post - Contact livestock . As an additional cross - check , the distribution of pre - Contact cattle remains is compared with post - Contact cattle densities in Figure 7C . None of the three specimens is ...
... shallow accumulations of post - Contact livestock . As an additional cross - check , the distribution of pre - Contact cattle remains is compared with post - Contact cattle densities in Figure 7C . None of the three specimens is ...
Page 45
... shallow and potentially churned deposits , there is a very real danger that the small samples from beneath the historical layers are derived from those layers , and will yield modern accelerator dates . To evaluate the context of ...
... shallow and potentially churned deposits , there is a very real danger that the small samples from beneath the historical layers are derived from those layers , and will yield modern accelerator dates . To evaluate the context of ...
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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