Using a Bioarchaeological Approach to Explore Subsistence Transitions in the Eastern Cape, South Africa during the Mid- to Late Holocene

Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 107-149

  Ginter, Jaime K ^a,b  

^a SHERIDAN COLLEGE   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adult skeletal remains of Holocene foragers Eastern Cape Province of South Africa; Analytic approaches by bioarchaeologists biology, culture and environment from human skeletal remains; Bioarchaeological approach, and subsistence transitions in Eastern Cape, South Africa in Mid to Late Holocene; Comparative metric analyses differences in cranial size, Eastern Cape and Bantu speaking samples; Data collection and analysis; Food production, Southernmost Africa biological relationship between herders and foragers, skeletal metric and cranial discrete data; Metric and discrete skeletal variables behavioural and genetic information from skeletons accessed; Odontometric data collected using maximum dental method; Pearson chi square analysis of Eastern Cape comparative South African Bantu speaking cranial discrete trait frequencies; South Africa, new subsistence lifestyle of herding partially replacing existing way of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857234614     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470670170.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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