An investigation of skeletons from Type-R settlements along the Riet and Orange Rivers, South Africa, using stable isotope analysis

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dc.contributor.advisorSealy, Judithen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMasemula, Nandien_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-04T18:03:44Z
dc.date.available2015-12-04T18:03:44Z
dc.date.issued2015en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn the last centuries before incorporation into the Cape Colony, the Riet and Orange River areas of the Northern Cape, South Africa were inhabited by communities of hunter-gatherers and herders whose life ways are little understood. These people were primarily of Khoesan descent, but their large stone-built stock pens attest to the presence of substantial herds of livestock, very likely for trade. This region was too dry for agriculture, although we know that there were links with Tswana-speaking agricultural communities to the north, because of the presence of characteristic styles of copper artefacts in Riet River graves. This was a frontier region at a turbulent time in South African history, so one of the questions about these societies is the extent to which they were homogeneous or heterogeneous - were many outsiders incorporated into these communities? What was the relative importance of herding compared with hunting in the local economy? Did connections with farming communities extend to the trading of cereal foods?en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMasemula, N. (2015). <i>An investigation of skeletons from Type-R settlements along the Riet and Orange Rivers, South Africa, using stable isotope analysis</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Archaeology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15584en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMasemula, Nandi. <i>"An investigation of skeletons from Type-R settlements along the Riet and Orange Rivers, South Africa, using stable isotope analysis."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Archaeology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15584en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMasemula, N. 2015. An investigation of skeletons from Type-R settlements along the Riet and Orange Rivers, South Africa, using stable isotope analysis. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Masemula, Nandi AB - In the last centuries before incorporation into the Cape Colony, the Riet and Orange River areas of the Northern Cape, South Africa were inhabited by communities of hunter-gatherers and herders whose life ways are little understood. These people were primarily of Khoesan descent, but their large stone-built stock pens attest to the presence of substantial herds of livestock, very likely for trade. This region was too dry for agriculture, although we know that there were links with Tswana-speaking agricultural communities to the north, because of the presence of characteristic styles of copper artefacts in Riet River graves. This was a frontier region at a turbulent time in South African history, so one of the questions about these societies is the extent to which they were homogeneous or heterogeneous - were many outsiders incorporated into these communities? What was the relative importance of herding compared with hunting in the local economy? Did connections with farming communities extend to the trading of cereal foods? DA - 2015 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - An investigation of skeletons from Type-R settlements along the Riet and Orange Rivers, South Africa, using stable isotope analysis TI - An investigation of skeletons from Type-R settlements along the Riet and Orange Rivers, South Africa, using stable isotope analysis UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15584 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/15584
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMasemula N. An investigation of skeletons from Type-R settlements along the Riet and Orange Rivers, South Africa, using stable isotope analysis. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Archaeology, 2015 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15584en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Archaeologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherArchaeologyen_ZA
dc.titleAn investigation of skeletons from Type-R settlements along the Riet and Orange Rivers, South Africa, using stable isotope analysisen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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