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... period 10 000 to 6 000-5 000 B.P. as ' the rising towards and the reaching of the Holocene " climatic optimum " . It also corresponds to the postglacial sea - level rise and reaching of the highest Holocene sea - levels ( some meters ...
... period 10 000 to 6 000-5 000 B.P. as ' the rising towards and the reaching of the Holocene " climatic optimum " . It also corresponds to the postglacial sea - level rise and reaching of the highest Holocene sea - levels ( some meters ...
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... period of reduced deposition or an occupation hiatus . Analyses of the artefacts and , to a lesser extent , the fauna indicate that this was a period of change in the ecology of the human occupants of the site , but D. M. Avery's ...
... period of reduced deposition or an occupation hiatus . Analyses of the artefacts and , to a lesser extent , the fauna indicate that this was a period of change in the ecology of the human occupants of the site , but D. M. Avery's ...
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... period while during the period of Unit 2 , when the cave appears to have been most intensively occupied , Avery has suggested that it might have been relatively dry . It would seem , however , that warmer and wetter conditions in the ...
... period while during the period of Unit 2 , when the cave appears to have been most intensively occupied , Avery has suggested that it might have been relatively dry . It would seem , however , that warmer and wetter conditions in the ...
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absent absent adzes Albany archaeol artefacts backed flakes backed scrapers blade cores BNK 1 layer BNK 1 sample bone Boomplaas bovids Bredasdorp Buffelskloof Burial Byneskranskop Calcaneum Cape Town capensis cent cm Fig coastal plain common in layers cranial Damaliscus Deacon distal Donax serra Elands Bay Elands Bay Cave ERSITY excavated volume fauna fish fragments fynbos Goodwin granatina H. J. Deacon Holocene increase indicated individuals Kelders Klein large medium layer 12 layer 9 layer total lower layers Mandible marine shell mean length Melkhoutboom Nelson Bay Cave Nguni notch Oakhurst Oreotragus Parkington Patella phase post-cranial skeleton present proximal quartz quartzite radiocarbon dates range Raphicerus raw material relatively remains retouched artefact category Robberg SAN DIEGO Schweitzer 1979 scrapers segments sequence shellfish sherds Sideroxylon inerme silcrete skull small medium Smithfield South African Museum stone artefacts sub-unit suggests surface tibia UNIV unmodified upper layers utilization vertebrae Wilton