"CHARACTERISING MIDDLE STONE AGE CORE FORMS ALONG THE DORING RIVER, SOU" by Matthew Shaw, Jessica Louise McNeil et al.
Much of the archaeological record in southern Africa occurs as open-air surface scatters of flaked stone artefacts. While historically prominent, these surface artefacts now play a very limited role in reconstructing human behaviour during the Middle and Later Stone Ages. Given suitable caveats, typologies allow links to be developed between open-air surface scatters and temporally controlled excavated samples, the latter often recovered from rock shelters. Among the limitations of this approach...
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