"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 are the incomplete rock shelter record for developing type seriations, and the fact that technologi...
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