May MurungiUniversity of Cape Town | UCT · HERI
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Olieboomspoort is one of the few rock shelters in the vast interior of southern Africa documenting pulses of occupation from the Acheulean until the end of the Later Stone Age. Revil Mason excavated the site in 1954 and attributed the large Middle Stone Age (MSA) lithic assemblage to his middle phase of the so-called Pietersburg Industry. Recent wo...
Umhlatuzana rockshelter has an occupation sequence spanning the last 70,000 years. It is one of the few sites with deposits covering the Middle to Later Stone Age transition (~40,000–30,000 years BP) in southern Africa. Comprehending the site’s depositional history and occupation sequence is thus important for the broader understanding of the devel...
This paper comprises two complementary parts. Firstly, phytolith morphology results from 17 species in 8 genera (Cyperus, Eleocharis, Fuirena, “Mariscus,” “Pycreus,” “Schoenoxiphium,” Scirpoides and Scleria) that were drawn from phytolith analysis of 36 sedge species from 13 genera are presented for their importance in the taxonomically problematic...
This study presents a first attempt at using phytoliths from a high-altitude crater lake as a palaeoecological tool at a tropical montane site. Mt. Muhavura (4127 m asl) at the border of Uganda and Rwanda is part of the Virunga volcanoes located in the Albertine Rift, one of the most biodiverse areas in Africa. To investigate the potential of phyto...
In this paper, we introduce a recently initiated research project conducted at Bushman Rock Shelter, on the northeastern edge of the Highveld plateau in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Previous excavations carried out at the site during the 1960s and 1970s exposed a deep and well-stratified sequence of c. 7 metres of archaeological deposits associa...