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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... 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 recording procedures applied to them ...
... 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 recording procedures applied to them ...
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... visible stratigraphy . Not even interfaces between matrix and contained features can be seen during excavation , but thin separations appear after standing sections are allowed to dry out ( Hart 1989 : 129-130 ) . Variable slope ...
... visible stratigraphy . Not even interfaces between matrix and contained features can be seen during excavation , but thin separations appear after standing sections are allowed to dry out ( Hart 1989 : 129-130 ) . Variable slope ...
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... visible in the stratigraphy . These 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 ...
... visible in the stratigraphy . These 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 ...
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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