Nicola Wells
Biographic Data
| ID | 11178418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Wells |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola |
| FAMILY NAME | Wells |
| SIGNATURE | WELLS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ostrich eggshell bead attributes and the hunter/herder/pastoralist debate in southern Africa
In southern Africa the size of ostrich eggshell beads has been used to attempt to separate hunter-gatherer from pastoralist sites since the 1980s. This paper offers a revival of the debate with individual bead and aperture diameter measurements and the presentation of a new bead metric — the cup percentage — and a larger spatio-temporal dataset. Preliminary results from late Pleistocene and Holocene Western Cape sites in South Africa show a chang…
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Ostrich eggshell bead attributes and the hunter/herder/pastoralist debate in southern Africa
In southern Africa the size of ostrich eggshell beads has been used to attempt to separate hunter-gatherer from pastoralist sites since the 1980s. This paper offers a revival of the debate with individual bead and aperture diameter measurements and the presentation of a new bead metric — the cup percentage — and a larger spatio-temporal dataset. Preliminary results from late Pleistocene and Holocene Western Cape sites in South Africa show a chang…
aperture diameter (1 work) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (1 work) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (1 work) · bead size (1 work) · Holocene (1 work) · Late Pleistocene (1 work) · ostrich eggshell beads (1 work) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (1 work) · Southern Africa (1 work) · spatio-temporal change (1 work)