Going the distance: Mapping mobility in the Kalahari Desert during the Middle Stone Age through multi-site geochemical provenancing of silcrete artefacts

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 96, Issue , 2016, Pages 113-133

  Nash, David J ^a,b   Coulson, Sheila ^c   Staurset, Sigrid ^c   Ullyott, J Stewart ^a   Babutsi, Mosarwa ^d   Smith, Martin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d Department of National Museum and Monuments ^*  (Botswana)

Author keywords

Cha ne op ratoire; Human mobility; Lithic technology; Middle Stone Age; Raw material procurement; Silcrete provenancing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; GEOCHEMISTRY; IMPORT; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MESOLITHIC; MOBILITY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PREHISTORIC; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SILCRETE;

BOTETI RIVER; BOTSWANA; KALAHARI DESERT; LAKE NGAMI; NGAMILAND;

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; BOTSWANA; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; HOMINID; HUMAN; SEDIMENT; TECHNOLOGY; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BOTSWANA; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84973879620     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.05.004     Document Type: Article

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