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Wurz, Sarah (Sarah Jacoba Deborah). "The middle stone age at Klasies River, South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51998.

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Thesis (D Phil)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Late Pleistocene, Middle Stone Age artefact sequence at the Klasies River main site, was studied to establish what information this held for inferences on the emergence of symbolic thought and communication. The approach adopted was to complement traditional typological analysis by a technological study of artefact production within the framework of the chafne opératoire. The results show that technology was aimed at producing preformed blanks. In the choice of materials, the technique and method of blank productio

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Boonzaaier, Johann Du Toit Loubser. "An inquiry into the competitiveness of the South African stone fruit industry." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97875.

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Thesis (MComm)—Stellenbosch University, 2015.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to undertake an inquiry on the competitive performance of the South African stone fruit industry since the early 1960s, with an emphasis on the more recent years since the mid-1990s, when the industry was deregulated. A comprehensive approach was applied in reaching conclusion in this study by employing a five-step analytical framework, built on well-established approaches by Balassa (revealed comparative advantage, RCA), Vollrath (relative trade advantage, RTA) and the Porter Diamond Model, adapte

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Van, Niekerk Karen Loise. "Marine fish exploitation during the middle and later Stone Age of South Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12238.

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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-335).<br>Marine fish remains are not common in Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites in Africa. There are currently only two known MSA sites with good organic preservation in South Africa that contain marine fish remains in relatively high numbers: Blombos Cave (BBC) and Klasies River main site (KR). Marine fish exploitation is considered by some researchers as a marker of modern human behaviour, requiring cognitive and technological capacities thought to have only appeared after 50 000 years ago, during the Later Stone Age (LSA).

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Hubbard, Nicola N. "Holocene settlement strategies in the Western Cape, South Africa : an environmental approach." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.254006.

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Halkett, D. J. "Spatial distribution of artefacts from excavations at Putslaagte 41 : evidence for social organisation on a late Holocene site, south western Cape, South Africa." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26075.

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Jerardino, Antonieta Mafalda Susana. "Changing social landscapes of the Western Cape coast of southern Africa over the last 4500 years." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21821.

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Bibliography: pages 177-205.<br>This thesis presents a reinterpretation of the late-Holocene hunter-gatherer archaeology of the Eland's Bay and Lambert's Bay areas of the western Cape. Marked changes in settlement, and subsistence over the last 4500 years had been previously suggested as having resulted from external factors, such as the environment and contact with incoming pastoralist groups. In contrast, this thesis presents hunter-gatherers as active role players in the transformation of their society and history. This was proposed as a result of an excavation and dating programme, palaeoe

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Underhill, David. "The Fauresmith : the transition from the Earlier to Middle Stone Ages in northern South Africa." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2012. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/367390/.

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This thesis discusses the Fauresmith of northern South Africa, a stone tool industry believed to contain contemporary Prepared Core Technology, Large Cutting Tools and blades, which is considered transitional between the Earlier and Middle Stone Ages. It further questions what this suggests about the nature of transitions as presently identified in the prehistoric record. Although ‘officially’ abandoned in 1965 the Fauresmith never fell completely from the literature and the last 20 years have seen it firmly re-appear in South African chronologies, and even more worryingly it has recently begu

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Tonner, Tobias W. W. "A spatial database for the Later Stone Age site 'Dunefield Midden', (Western Cape, South Africa)." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4183.

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Lewis, Laura. "Early microlithic technologies and behavioural variability in southern Africa and South Asia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:aa339eba-5fcf-4797-9d99-2d7d4f6a8893.

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Microlith production is a distinctive and significant stone tool technology. However, inter-regional comparative analyses of microlithic industries are rare, and have tended to homogenise these industries by focussing analytical attention on retouched tool typologies alone. This thesis provides the first demonstration and exploration of variability in two of the earliest microlithic industries in the world - the Howiesons Poort of southern Africa and the Late Palaeolithic of South Asia. Analysis of this variation has implications for the long-standing debates concerning modern human behaviour

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Brown, Kyle S. "The sword in the stone : lithic raw material in the Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle Point Site 5-6, southern Cape, South Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10207.

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This thesis presents a description and analysis of the lithic artefacts from the recently excavated site of Pinnacle Point 5-6, Mossel Bay, from a sequence dating between ~50-85ka. PP5-6 has been excavated to the highest contemporary standards, enabling a more detailed analysis of the lithics than is possible for Klasies. Although the PP5-6 lithic sequence conforms with the overall trends of MSA artifact manufacture, a number of differences from other sites are identified here for the first time - a significant step towards understanding behavioral variability and complexity among early modern

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Collins, Benjamin. "The taphonomy and subsistence strategies from the Middle Stone Age occupation at Sibudu Cave, South Africa." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121447.

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This study examined the faunal assemblage from Sibudu Cave, a final Middle Stone Age site in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A two-part hierarchical method was employed, with the assemblage's taphonomy being first assessed, followed by a zooarchaeological interpretation of the hunting strategies used by Sibudu's final Middle Stone Age occupants. These data and the other archaeological information from the final Middle Stone Age occupation were then compared with other sites from similar temporal and geographic contexts to contribute to a broader regional interpretation of the archaeology from t

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Mati, Shepherd A. "Brick walls or brick columns? : management responses to the challenge of sustainability in community radio with special reference to Bush Radio and Radio Zibonele." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52153.

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Thesis (MPhil) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2001.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Community radio stations in South Africa are faced with a huge challenge to become sustainable in the process of serving their communities. The issue of sustainability itself is complex and shaped by a range of conditionalities. These include community participation, funding, regulatory and licencing factors, staff and management expertise, and the strategic planning and management capacity of a station. Often the communities themselves are materially poor and unable to contribute in monetary terms to the radio sta

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Pienaar, Marc. "Dating the stone age at Rose Cottage Cave South Africa : an exercise in optically dating cave sediments." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06052007-084723.

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Parsons, Isabelle. "Later Stone Age socio-economic variabillity during the last 2000 years in the Northern Cape, South Africa." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612733.

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Loftus, Emma. "Sea surface temperatures from oxygen isotopes in marine molluscs in Middle and Later Stone Age sites, South Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b9219c2d-ec92-4baf-b316-cfe1d46b8836.

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The southernmost coast of South Africa has been proposed to have been a uniquely important region in later human evolution, in part due to the abundance of nutritious and dense coastal resources. Yet, strong contrasts in the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and subsequent Later Stone Age (LSA) archaeological records cast uncertainty on the significance of shellfish utilisation for processes of human evolution. Further, climatic shifts are frequently advanced as drivers of widespread technological change but few climate proxy records correspond adequately to the archaeological evidence at a temporal or s

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Hart, Timothy James Graham. "Haaskraal and Volstruisfontein : later Stone Age events at two rockshelters in the Zeekoe Valley, Great Karoo, South Africa." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28105.

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Nemanashi, Fhatuwani Rolet. "An evaluation of local economic development projects in the Mutale Municipality in the Limpopo Province with reference to the case of MTT and RCP stone crushing projects." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/844.

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Guillemard, Iris. "Change and continuity in the lithic technologies from Final to Ceramic Final Later Stone Age,Limpopo Basin, South Africa." Thesis, Paris 10, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA100111.

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L’Holocène récent d’Afrique australe (4000 BP – 19ème siècle) est une période marquée par des changements sociaux et économiques. A partir d’il y a environ deux mille ans, l’apparition du mouton domestiqué et de la poterie au sein de sites Later Stone Age (LSA), traditionnellement associés aux chasseurs-cueilleurs, marque le commencement de divers processus de néolithisation. Le bassin de la rivière Limpopo est une région particulièrement intéressante pour l’étude de ces processus. Ce bassin est en effet une voie de migration majeure où se côtoient des populations variées, généralement qualifi

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Jordaan, Jacqueline. "An archaeological investigation into the social structure of a stone-walled site in the North West Province, South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/55836.

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This master’s study concerns a Tswana stone-walled site in the North West Province. Within this province, the Zeerust-Rustenburg-Pilanesberg region has been of particular interest to Tswana settlement studies. In this region, the Tswana built stone-walled settlements from the mid 17th to the 19th century CE; altering their settlement style from dispersed to aggregated during this time. The aggregated settlements reflect a centralisation of socio-political authority in the region. However, prior research has focussed predominantly on these aggregated settlements, with little research conducted

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Bader, Gregor Donatus [Verfasser], and Nicholas [Akademischer Betreuer] Conard. "On the variability of Middle Stone Age lithic technology during MIS3 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Gregor Donatus Bader ; Betreuer: Nicholas Conard." Tübingen : Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1199393835/34.

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Rama, Sobhana. "Managing Information Confidentiality Using the Chinese Wall Model to Reduce Fraud in Government Tenders." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1006956.

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Instances of fraudulent acts are often headline news in the popular press in South Africa. Increasingly, these press reports point to the government tender process as being the main enabler used by the perpetrators committing the fraud. The cause of the tender fraud problem is confidentiality breach of information. This is accomplished, in part, by compromising the tender information contained in the government information system. This results in the biased award of a tender. Typically, the information in the tender process should be used to make decisions about a tender’s specifications, soli

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Olivier, Marcelle. "Geometric rock art along the Luanga Valley escarpment, Zambia, and its relationship with the later Stone Age in Southern and South-Central Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.543631.

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Akpakli, Evans Ametefe. "Comparative Analysis of Kidney Stone Composition in Patients from Ghana and South Africa: Case Study of Kidney Stones from Accra and Cape Town." Master's thesis, Faculty of Health Sciences, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31592.

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Aim: The primary aim of this study was to describe and compare the kidney stone composition of kidney stone patients receiving treatment at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Accra (Ghana) and Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH), Cape Town (South Africa). Methods: The study was a retrospective folder review of patients treated for kidney stone disease at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra (Ghana) and Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town (South Africa). Patients who were treated for kidney stone disease between 1st June 2016 and 31st May 2018 were recruited and their folder numbers were retrie

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Naidoo, Laven. "Quantifying the structure of the woody element in Savannahs using integrated optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) approach : a stepping stone towards country wide monitoring in South Africa." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65923.

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Savannahs, which are defined as a heterogeneous mixture of herbaceous and woody plant components, occupy one fifth of the global land surface and is the largest biome in South Africa. The woody vegetation structure of savannahs is particularly important as it influences the fire regime, nutrient cycling and the water cycle of these environments and provides fuelwood to sustain the local human populace. Remote Sensing has been proven in numerous studies to be the preferred tool for quantifying and mapping this woody vegetation structure (in this study, defined as woody biomass, woody canopy vol

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Schmid, Viola. "Les couches C-A de la grotte de Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, Afrique du Sud) à la lumière des technologies lithiques du MSA dans MIS 5." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100038.

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Au cours des dernières décennies, le Middle Stone Age (MSA) a été proclamé comme une période clé de l'évolution de l'homme moderne. Pourtant, la nature des premières innovations nécessite encore d’être clarifiée. L'exploration des séquences régionales et la poursuite des recherches sur les phases supposées anciennes – le Still Bay et l’Howiesons Poort –, ainsi que sur l’ensemble du MSA, est essentielle afin d’élargir nos connaissances.La grotte de Sibudu en Afrique du Sud contient une longue séquence datée du MSA. Les fouilles en cours, menées par l'Université de Tübingen, ont mis au jour desa

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Chingono, Paidamoyo Hazel. "Environment and culture: an analysis of settlement patterns in stone walled structures located in southern Gauteng, South Africa." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24985.

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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Johannesburg 2017.<br>Pre-colonial Stone Walled Structures (SWS) in southern Africa have been studied since the 17th Century. Studies focused on establishing the origins of SWS, classification and other socio-economic components associated with these settlements. The physical environment played a significant role in shaping these communities, therefore making it important to establish the correlation between these pre-colonial cultures

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Naidu, Saireeni Latisha. "The Southward spread of Johannesburg and its impact on precolonial stone walled structures." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/25805.

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Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Science, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, 2018.<br>There are thousands of Stone Walled Structures (SWS) located in the southern half of the Gauteng Province. In the absence of relevant historical documents, these SWS are all the information we have about how pre-colonial societies were organized in this area. Unfortunately, they are threatened by rapid urbanization and development. This research attempts to estimate how many Iron Age SWS have been lost to urban development in Johannesburg South during the l

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Kempson, Helen. "The role of rock properties in stone tool production in the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21730.

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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg, 2016.<br>This study is within the context of the Howiesons Poort Industry of the Middle Stone Age. This is a dynamic period of increasing behavioural and material complexity. In the lithic assembles, this can be seen in a strong bias towards the selection of high-quality fine-grained rocks. This has often been interpreted as evidence for long distance travel, reciprocal exchange, or even increased mobility. Thi

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Lombard, Marlize. "Archaeological use-trace analyses of stone tools from South Africa." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/3900.

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Analytical methods for extracting detailed functional and technological information from Middle Stone Age stone tools were refined and developed. This was achieved within a theoretical framework that insists on multiple-stranded evidence for behavioural interpretation. The methods include micro-residue analysis, macrofracture analysis and usewear analysis. Stone tool assemblages – spanning the period between about 100 000 and 50 000 years ago – from Sibudu Cave, Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, Klasies River Cave 2 and Blombos Cave were analysed. Results derived from macrofracture analyses, that are

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Rifkin, Riaan Francois. "The symbolic and functional exploitation of ochre during the South African Middle Stone Age." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/11832.

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Ochre is a ubiquitous artefact in Middle Stone Age (MSA) contexts throughout Africa and the Near East. Archaeological evidence for the abrasive processing of ochre to extract pigment powder becomes increasingly prevalent after 100 ka. The habitual exploitation of ochre is interpreted as evidence for symbolism, a proxy for the origin of language and as a key element of ‘symbolic’ and ‘modern’ human behaviour. Evolutionary explanations agree that ochre and the products of its processing played a significant role in the adaptive strategies of early modern humans, but they differ in the func

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Collett, David Phillip. "The archaeology of the stone walled settlements in the Eastern Transvaal, South Africa." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16525.

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Sievers, Christine. "Sedges as bedding in Middle Stone Age Sibudu." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/12922.

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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2013<br>Cyperaceae (sedge) nutlets dominate the archaeobotanical assemblage of fruits and seeds recovered from the Middle Stone Age deposits at the rock shelter Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Sievers 2006). My aim is to investigate the implications of the nutlet presence in terms of human behaviour and to demonstrate that the nutlets were likely brought into the shelter on sedge culms (stems) deliberately harvested

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Binneman, Johannes Nicolaas Francois. "Symbolic construction of communities during the Holocene Later Stone Age in the South-Eastern Cape." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20828.

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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg, 1995.<br>The main concern of this study is the investigation of the events which initiated the symbolic construction of communities in the south-eastern Cape during the Holocene Later Stone Age. To understand and to explain the relationships which existed between different groups in this region a social approach was followed. The data presented in this thesis are a summary of the results obtained from a large nu

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Mohapi, Moleboheng. "A new angle on Middle Stone Age hunting technology in South Africa." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/6786.

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Lithic points have always been assumed to have been spears and they occur in Middle Stone Age (MSA) assemblages in great numbers before the Howiesons Poort. They disappear or occur only very rarely in the Howiesons Poort Industry (when segments appear to replace them). After the Howiesons Poort, points become common again. Segments, which are part of some Later Stone Age (LSA), as well as MSA assemblages, have, like points, been associated with hunting weapons. This study reports on the results of a technological analysis of South African points and segments. The points come from two MSA

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Pearce, David Gareth. "Later Stone Age burial practice in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/6119.

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Lennox, Sandra Janet. "Woody taxa from charcoal in Sibudu’s Middle Stone Age hearths." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21655.

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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg, 2016.<br>ABSTRACT Sibudu rock shelter was occupied by hunter gatherer groups of modern humans during the Middle Stone Age between 77 and 38 000 (38 ka) years ago. Sibudu is in the summer rainfall region and is situated about 15 km inland of the eastern coast of South Africa. The site includes technological industries such as Still Bay and Howiesons Poort that are distinguished by specific stone tool types. Wood

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Van, Dyk Wessel. "Breaking down the walls: how can we integrate gated communities into the existing urban fabric through design?" Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/23648.

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Thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Urban Design to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2017<br>Influenced by the thinking of the Garden City movement, gated and so-called lifestyle security estates have become overwhelmingly popular in many cities across the world. With demand fuelled by a combination of security concerns and a belief that such schemes provides enhanced efficiency and comfortability, these estates have come under severe scrutiny with regards to its apparent spatial

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Bentsen, Silje Evjenth. "By the campfire. Pyrotechnology and Middle Stone Age hearths at Sibudu Cave." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/15332.

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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg, 2014.<br>The Middle Stone Age rock shelter site Sibudu contains abundant evidence of pyrotechnology (the controlled use of fire) such as combustion features, ashy layers and lenses and burned bone. I study the use, reuse and discard of fire at Sibudu and the layers Brown/Grey mix and Brown under Yellow Ash 2(i) from the post-Howiesons Poort (post-HP) industry (c. 58 000 years BP) and the layers Pinkish Grey Sand and

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Allott, Lucy Fiona. "Palaeoenvironments of the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: An analysis of archaeological charcoal." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/156.

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PhD - Science<br>Analysis of charcoal from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, shows evidence of environmental change during the Last Glacial. Layers analysed encompass the end of the cold stadial, Oxygen Isotope Stage (OIS) 4, and the warmer interstadial, OIS 3. Layers are divided – on the basis of lithic industry associations and taxonomic content – into the Howiesons Poort (HP) (dated to ca. 61 000 years ago), and the early, middle and late post-HP assemblages (ca. 60-55 000, 55-50 000 and 50-33 000 years ago respectively). This project aims to ident

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Ramphinwa, Maanea Lonia. "Performance of selected different types of stone fruits in a summer rainfall area, South Africa." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/125.

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Ryano, Kokeli Peter. "The later Stone Age in the Southern Cape, South Africa, during the terminal pleistocene/early holocene with a focus on Klipdrift cave." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16835.

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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg, November 2014.<br>My analysis of the lithics, shellfish and tortoise recovered from layers dating to between 11.8 and 9.7 ka at Klipdrift Cave (KDC), De Hoop Nature Reserve, southern Cape, provides new information on the Oakhurst technocomplex. A re-analysis of a sample of lithic artefacts from Matjes River Rock Shelter (MRS) indicates many technological similarities, but also unexpected differences, highlighting th

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Parsons, Isabelle. "An investigation of a later stone age open-air surface site on Blauwbosch 364, Northern Cape." Diss., 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26461.

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Banhegyi, Stephen. "Google Earth and GIS reveal settlement patterns associated with stone circles, southern Gauteng, South Africa." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/17412.

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Kempson, Helen. "Late earlier stone age sites in the Mapungubwe National Park, South Africa: a technological study." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/4777.

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Dr K. Kuman initiated the Limpopo research programme that at present is based on excavations conducted at three sites, Hackthorne, Kudu Koppie and Keratic Koppie. They are situated atop a remnant of an ancient Miocene terrace, approximately 4km from the present day course of the Limpopo River in the Mapungubwe National Park. A broad range of stone tool types is represented in the area, with mostly Earlier and Middle Stone Age artefacts found on the higher ground and Later Stone Age pieces found primarily on the Limpopo’s floodplain. One of the obstacles to understanding the archaeology

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Mangoro, Ngonidzashe. "An archaeological investigation of an early Sotho Tswana site in the Rustenburg area, North West Province of South Africa." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/27061.

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A research report submitted to the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, October 2018<br>The study compares the satellite site Selonskraal South with Molokwane, the main site located less than two kilometres to its north. The comparison focuses on spatial layout and distribution using a Remote Sensing method of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR DEM). The comparison also incorporates the material culture which was obtained through archaeological excavations of a midden

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Cook, Patrick Michael. "The inhibition of coal-dust explosions with stone dust in a large scale explosion gallery." Thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22947.

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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Engineering<br>Regulation 10.24 of the Minerals Act (1991) of the Republic of South Africa is applied for the purpose of preventing the development and propagation of coal-dust explosions in underground coal mines. ( Abbreviation abstract )<br>AC2017

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Hodgskiss, Tamaryn Penny. "Ochre use at Sibudu Cave and its link to complex cognition in the Middle Stone Age." Thesis, 2014.

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Ochre is found at many Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites and its use is often attributed by archaeologists to enhanced mental abilities and symbolism. However, the links between the visible uses of ochre, cognition and symbolism have not been clearly demonstrated. Here it is argued that by understanding ochre processing technology and some of the stages involved in using ochre, one can determine the skill, knowledge and cognitive abilities required to execute those activities. In order to understand the usetraces found on ochre, and to enable the identification of them, as well as the types o

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"A Formal Modeling Approach to Understanding Stone Tool Raw Material Selection in the African Middle Stone Age: A Case Study from Pinnacle Point, South Africa." Doctoral diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44037.

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abstract: The South African Middle Stone Age (MSA), spanning the Middle to Late Pleistocene (Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 8-3) witnessed major climatic and environmental change and dramatic change in forager technological organization including lithic raw material selection. Homo sapiens emerged during the MSA and had to make decisions about how to organize technology to cope with environmental stressors, including lithic raw material selection, which can effect tool production and application, and mobility. This project studied the role and importance of lithic raw materials in the technolog

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Stratford, Dominic Justin. "A study of newly discovered lithics from earlier Stone Age deposits at Sterkfontein, Gauteng province, South Africa." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/6884.

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The need to expand the current lithic Plio-Pleistocene assemblages at Sterkfontein and to understand how these assemblages have been incorporated into the cave deposits is of key importance to archaeological research on the Oldowan and Early Acheulean of South Africa. The greater the archaeological sample size the more accurately inferences can be made regarding the behaviour and technological practices of local hominid groups. An accurate understanding of depositional processes influencing these assemblages allows inferences to be made regarding the post-depositional movement of elements with

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Pienaar, Marc. "Dating the stone age at Rose Cottage Cave South Africa - An exercise in optically dating cave sediments." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25270.

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Results and analysis of Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Later Stone Age (LSA) sediments at Rose Cottage Cave (RCC) are presented. Seventeen luminescence samples taken over the last decade were used in this study. Fourteen of these samples were dated (eight in Pretoria and six in Risø, Denmark by A. S. Murray). The samples were taken from the entire sequence and gave age ranges from the bottom of the sequence up until the Oakhurst LSA industry. The protocol that was used is the conventional single-aliquot regenerative (SAR) protocol, due to its a

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