H. Opperman’s scientific contributions

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Some Research Results of Excavations in the Colwinton Rock Shelter, North-Eastern Cape
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December 1982

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The South African Archaeological Bulletin

H. Opperman

The deposits in the Colwinton Rock Shelter (Barkly East district) probably span the end-Pleistocene and Holocene period. Excavated material includes faunal remains, stone artefacts and pottery. The stone tool analysis reveals sequence of three industries which show typological similarities with the Later Stone Age industries in the cultural sequence of the southern and eastern Cape, Lesotho and the middle Orange River basin.

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... The foothills of the Drakensberg are often seen as an intermediate region between the cold, harsh highlands of the Drakensberg and the grassland-dominated interior of southern Africa. Opperman (1982Opperman ( , 1987Opperman ( , 1988) excavated multiple sites in this region including Grassridge Rockshelter, Colwinton and Ravenscraig. He argued that hunter-gatherer groups generally focused on mountain resources and only exploited food resources in the foothills of the mountains in times of scarcity. ...

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Strathalan Cave revisited: Stone Age networks and environments at the foot of the Drakensberg, South Africa
Some Research Results of Excavations in the Colwinton Rock Shelter, North-Eastern Cape
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  • December 1982

The South African Archaeological Bulletin