Kathu townlands: a high density earlier stone age locality in the interior of South Africa
dc.contributor.author | Walker, Steven J H | en_ZA |
dc.contributor.author | Lukich, Vasa | en_ZA |
dc.contributor.author | Chazan, Michael | en_ZA |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-18T07:07:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-11-18T07:07:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_ZA |
dc.description.abstract | Kathu Townlands is a high density Earlier Stone Age locality in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Here we present the first detailed information on this locality based on analysis of a sample of lithic material from excavations by P. Beaumont and field observations made in the course of fieldwork in 2013. The results confirm the remarkably high artefact density at Kathu Townlands and do not provide evidence consistent with high energy transport as a mechanism of site formation, suggesting that Kathu Townlands was the site of intensive exploitation of highly siliceous outcroppings of banded iron formation. The results presented here provide a first step towards understanding this complex locality and point to the need for further research and the importance of preserving this locality in the face of intensive and rapid development. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.apacitation | Walker, S. J. H., Lukich, V., & Chazan, M. (2014). Kathu townlands: a high density earlier stone age locality in the interior of South Africa. <i>PLoS One</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15128 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Walker, Steven J H, Vasa Lukich, and Michael Chazan "Kathu townlands: a high density earlier stone age locality in the interior of South Africa." <i>PLoS One</i> (2014) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15128 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Walker, S. J., Lukich, V., & Chazan, M. (2013). Kathu townlands: a high density earlier stone age locality in the interior of South Africa. PloS one, 9(7), e103436. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103436 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Walker, Steven J H AU - Lukich, Vasa AU - Chazan, Michael AB - Kathu Townlands is a high density Earlier Stone Age locality in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Here we present the first detailed information on this locality based on analysis of a sample of lithic material from excavations by P. Beaumont and field observations made in the course of fieldwork in 2013. The results confirm the remarkably high artefact density at Kathu Townlands and do not provide evidence consistent with high energy transport as a mechanism of site formation, suggesting that Kathu Townlands was the site of intensive exploitation of highly siliceous outcroppings of banded iron formation. The results presented here provide a first step towards understanding this complex locality and point to the need for further research and the importance of preserving this locality in the face of intensive and rapid development. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0103436 DP - University of Cape Town J1 - PLoS One LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - Kathu townlands: a high density earlier stone age locality in the interior of South Africa TI - Kathu townlands: a high density earlier stone age locality in the interior of South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15128 ER - | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15128 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103436 | |
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Walker SJH, Lukich V, Chazan M. Kathu townlands: a high density earlier stone age locality in the interior of South Africa. PLoS One. 2014; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15128. | en_ZA |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.department | Department of Archaeology | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Science | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
dc.rights | This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | en_ZA |
dc.rights.holder | © 2014 Walker et al | en_ZA |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 | en_ZA |
dc.source | PLoS One | en_ZA |
dc.source.uri | http://journals.plos.org/plosone | en_ZA |
dc.subject.other | Archaeology | en_ZA |
dc.subject.other | Paleoanthropology | en_ZA |
dc.subject.other | Archaeological excavation | en_ZA |
dc.subject.other | Human evolution | en_ZA |
dc.subject.other | Professions | en_ZA |
dc.subject.other | Lithic technology | en_ZA |
dc.subject.other | Raw materials | en_ZA |
dc.subject.other | Pleistocene epoch | en_ZA |
dc.title | Kathu townlands: a high density earlier stone age locality in the interior of South Africa | en_ZA |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
uct.type.filetype | Text | |
uct.type.filetype | Image | |
uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |
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