A Jerardino
Biographic Data
| ID | 22038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Jerardino |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Jerardino |
| SIGNATURE | JERARDINO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0078-7718 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 549 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Revisiting, redating, and reframing the earliest excavations at Paternoster, South African west coast
The Holocene archaeology of the South African west coast is arguably the most studied among other coastal stretches in this country. It has helped to understand the shifts in the lifeways and technology of coastal hunter-gatherers in relation to their environment, climate changes and cultural contact with herder groups. Among the momentous and varied records, the appearance of very large shell middens known as ‘megamiddens’ stands out. They are d…
Variability among South African west coast megamiddens
Pleistocene and Holocene Archaeology of Southern African Coastlines
Southern African coastlines have been magnets for human settlement since the late Pleistocene. Evidence for isolated or sporadic use (from 600 ka) and later recurrent access (from 160 ka) to a variety of coastal resources in this subcontinent ranks among the earliest in the world. While providing for subsistence over millennia, seascapes were also likely sources of deep cultural meaning that shaped the lives of coastal groups. Developing conceptu…
A multi-analytical approach reveals flexible compound adhesive technology at Steenbokfontein Cave, Western Cape
Evidence of different compound resin-based adhesives is present in South Africa from at least 77000 years ago. Ancient glue production is considered one of the oldest known highly complex technologies, requiring advanced technological and mental abilities. However, our current knowledge of adhesive materials, recipes, and uses in South Africa is limited by the lack of in-depth analysis and molecular characterization of residues. To deepen our kno…
Human Resilience in the Face of Mid-Holocene Climate Change on the Central West Coast of South Africa
After the Last Glacial Maximum, important yet milder climatic trends continued to characterise the Holocene. None of them was more challenging to forager groups in the central west coast of South Africa than the mid-Holocene Altithermal (8200–4200 cal BP ). Hot and dry weather and 1–3 m higher sea levels were thought once to have barred local foragers from this region because of a lack of sites dating to this period. Instead, this initial scenari…
Coastal foraging on the West Coast of South Africa in the midst of mid-Holocene climate change
The mid-Holocene (ca. 8200–4200 cal BP) brought about important climatic changes and environmental shifts to land and coastal systems, globally. Many of the human groups existing at that time were affected in various degrees by such important modifications to their foraging areas, including shorelines. Higher sea-levels (+1–3 m) were a prominent factor reshaping coastal landscapes and thus affecting coastal foraging in one or more ways. Hot and d…
Pleistocene and Holocene procurement of the clam Donax serra (Bivalvia
Coastal foraging and transgressive sea levels during the terminal Pleistocene
Coastal occupation and foraging during the last glacial maximum and early Holocene at Waterfall Bluff, eastern Pondoland, South Africa
Waterfall Bluff is a rock shelter in eastern Pondoland, South Africa, adjacent to a narrow continental shelf that limited coastline movements across glacial/interglacial cycles. The archaeological deposits are characterized by well-preserved stratigraphy, faunal, and botanical remains alongside abundant stone artifacts and other materials. A comprehensive dating protocol consisting of 5 optically stimulated luminescence ages and 51 accelerator ma…
Shellfish processing along the Cape west coast, population increase and hunter-gatherer resource intensification
Human-environmental interactions in Mediterranean climate regions from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene
From mobile hunter-gatherers to a series of state societies, Mediterranean climate regions (MED) around the world have been critical areas for human and biological evolution for millennia. Comprised of five regions on six continents, the MED are important today for human settlement, global food production, transportation, industry, and tourism, but these regions are also extremely vulnerable to projected changes in their typically temperate clima…
Shell Middens and Seashores
Studies on Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin dietary adaptations have argued that aquatic foods played a key role during this evolutionary process. This chapter presents a summary account on the use and significance of marine resources, particularly shellfish, for early modern humans in southern Africa during oxygen isotope stages (OIS) 6–4. The methods used to identify, quantify, and compare archaeomalacological assemblages in South Africa and…
Shell Fragmentation Beyond Screen-Size and the Reconstruction of Intra-Site Settlement Patterns
Water-worn shell and pebbles in shell middens as proxies of palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, shellfish procurement and their transport
Current methodological issues in archaeomalacological studies
On the origins and significance of Pleistocene coastal resource use in southern Africa with particular reference to shellfish gathering
Aquatic resource exploitation by prehistoric humans
Shell density as proxy for reconstructing prehistoric aquatic resource exploitation, perspectives from southern Africa
Site Distribution and Chronology at Soutpansklipheuwel, a Rocky Outcrop on the West Coast of South Africa
Archaeological research along the West Coast of South Africa has unveiled a diversity of Holocene adaptive strategies as shown by the different type, size, composition, and distribution of sites and their faunal and artifactual contents. Some differences and similarities are apparent between the northerly semi-desert of Namaqualand and the more central Lamberts Bay and Elands Bay areas. On first impression, this archaeological variability seems r…
Variability in late Holocene shellfish assemblages
Stranded rocky shore mussels and their possible procurement during prehistory on the West Coast of South Africa
Changing collecting strategies of the clam Donax serra Röding (Bivalvia)
Large Shell Middens and Hunter-Gatherer Resource Intensification Along the West Coast of South Africa
“Megamiddens” appear along the West Coast of South Africa c. 3000–2000 BP. Kalahari San ethnography was used initially to explain them as processing localities given the massive volumes of marine shell and low densities of other remains. However, recent research in Lamberts Bay using a resource intensification model seems to explain more of the observed archaeological variability. In this paper, the evidence of Elands Bay megamiddens is studied i…
Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoscape modeling along the southern coast of South Africa
Large shell middens in Lamberts Bay, South Africa
Shellfish gathering, marine paleoecology and modern human behavior
Large shell middens in Lamberts Bay, South Africa
Large Shell Middens and Hunter-Gatherer Resource Intensification Along the West Coast of South Africa
“Megamiddens” appear along the West Coast of South Africa c. 3000–2000 BP. Kalahari San ethnography was used initially to explain them as processing localities given the massive volumes of marine shell and low densities of other remains. However, recent research in Lamberts Bay using a resource intensification model seems to explain more of the observed archaeological variability. In this paper, the evidence of Elands Bay megamiddens is studied i…
Changes in Shellfish Species Composition and Mean Shell Size from a Late-Holocene Record of the West Coast of Southern Africa
Shell morphometry of seven limpet species from coastal shell middens in southern Africa
Excavations at Pancho's Kitchen Midden, Western Cape Coast, South Africa
Antonieta Jerardino, Excavations at Pancho's Kitchen Midden, Western Cape Coast, South Africa: Further Observations into the Megamidden Period, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 53, No. 167 (Jun., 1998), pp. 16-25
Early Coastal Subsistence Patterns in Central Chile
Curaumilla-1 presents the earliest date for Archaic coastal occupation and marine exploitation in central Chile (8,500 years B. P.). The remains of marine invertebrates from this site at Punta Curaumilla were studied. The number of present species, minimum number of individuals for 14 species, and mean sizes of two of these species were established. Recent studies have demonstrated that modern shellfish gatherers are important modifiers of rocky-…
Shell density as proxy for reconstructing prehistoric aquatic resource exploitation, perspectives from southern Africa
Painted Slabs from Steenbokfontein Cave
Opportunistic Subsistence Strategies among Late Holocene Coastal Hunter-Gatherers, Elands Bay, South Africa
Hunting and gathering was practiced for many hundreds of thousands of years in South Africa's Western Cape region, until ceramics and a stock-keeping economy first appeared c. 2,000 years ago, and in the Elands Bay and Lamberts Bay areas 200 years later. Subsistence and settlement patterns in this part of the West Coast of South Africa changed dramatically after this date, but the nature of interactions between indigenous groups engaging with the…
Excavations at Mike Taylor's Midden
Despite considerable interest over the past twenty years, observations on the archaeology of the large shell midden known as Mike Taylor's Midden (MTM), near Eland's Bay on the South African west coast, have remained largely unpublished. This paper summarises excavations at MTM from the 1970s to the 1990s, and discusses interpretations of this and other large shell middens which appeared on the west coast between about 3000 and 2000 BP. It is arg…
The Problem with Density Values in Archaeological Analysis
This paper attempts to explain the generating factors behind density values of materials recovered from prehistoric archaeological excavations. Various categories of archaeological remains from Tortoise Cave were analysed for this purpose. Densities offer limited interpretative power when rates of deposition in smallscale excavations are unknown and only poor chronological control is available. It is suggested that, when evaluated interactively, …
Human-environmental interactions in Mediterranean climate regions from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene
From mobile hunter-gatherers to a series of state societies, Mediterranean climate regions (MED) around the world have been critical areas for human and biological evolution for millennia. Comprised of five regions on six continents, the MED are important today for human settlement, global food production, transportation, industry, and tourism, but these regions are also extremely vulnerable to projected changes in their typically temperate clima…
Changing collecting strategies of the clam Donax serra Röding (Bivalvia)
Excavations at Melkbosstrand
Judith Sealy, Tim Maggs, Antonieta Jerardino, Jonathan Kaplan, Excavations at Melkbosstrand: Variability among Herder Sites on Table Bay, South Africa, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 59, No. 179 (Jun., 2004), pp. 17-28
Stranded rocky shore mussels and their possible procurement during prehistory on the West Coast of South Africa
Cape Rock Lobster (Jasus lalandii) Remains from South African West Coast Shell Middens
Late Holocene Neoglacial episodes in southern South America and southern Africa
Palaeoenvironmental evidence from existing late-Holocene palaeoenvironmental sequences suggests that important atmospheric and oceanographic changes took place during the last 5000 years in southern South America and southern Africa. Several oscillations were contemporary with three well- known Neoglacial episodes that occurred between about 4500 and 4000 BP, between 3000 and 2000 BP and during the last 1000 years. The scale of change involved du…
Preliminary Results from Excavations at Steenbokfontein Cave
Antonieta Jerardino, Royden Yates, Preliminary Results from Excavations at Steenbokfontein Cave: Implications for Past and Future Research, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 51, No. 163 (Jun., 1996), pp. 7-16
Diversity in mastic-mounted stone adzes and the use of mastic in precolonial South Africa
Composite tools and hafted tools were used world-wide over the last 35,000 years, and possibly earlier than that (Boëda et al. 1996; Holdaway 1996). Evidence for the use of composite tools in South Africa is provided by a small number of arrows from ethnohistorical and archaeological collections (Binneman 1994; Deacon & Deacon 1999: 158-9), a handful of mounted stone artefacts, and a significant number of mastic stained stone artefacts from archa…
An Infant Burial from Steenbokfontein Cave, West Coast, South Africa
Antonieta Jerardino, Judith Sealy, Susan Pfeiffer, An Infant Burial from Steenbokfontein Cave, West Coast, South Africa: Its Archaeological, Nutritional and Anatomical Context, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 171 (Jun., 2000), pp. 44-48
A multi-analytical approach reveals flexible compound adhesive technology at Steenbokfontein Cave, Western Cape
Evidence of different compound resin-based adhesives is present in South Africa from at least 77000 years ago. Ancient glue production is considered one of the oldest known highly complex technologies, requiring advanced technological and mental abilities. However, our current knowledge of adhesive materials, recipes, and uses in South Africa is limited by the lack of in-depth analysis and molecular characterization of residues. To deepen our kno…
A First Account of Fat-Tailed Sheep in the Rock Paintings of the Western Cape Coast
A Dated Human Burial from the Namaqualand Coast
Antonieta M. Jerardino, Royden Yates, Alan G. Morris, Judith C. Sealy, A Dated Human Burial from the Namaqualand Coast: Observations on Culture, Biology and Diet, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 47, No. 156 (Dec., 1992), pp. 75-81
Coastal foraging on the West Coast of South Africa in the midst of mid-Holocene climate change
The mid-Holocene (ca. 8200–4200 cal BP) brought about important climatic changes and environmental shifts to land and coastal systems, globally. Many of the human groups existing at that time were affected in various degrees by such important modifications to their foraging areas, including shorelines. Higher sea-levels (+1–3 m) were a prominent factor reshaping coastal landscapes and thus affecting coastal foraging in one or more ways. Hot and d…
A Dated Human Burial from the Namaqualand Coast
Antonieta M. Jerardino, Royden Yates, Alan G. Morris, Judith C. Sealy, A Dated Human Burial from the Namaqualand Coast: Observations on Culture, Biology and Diet, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 47, No. 156 (Dec., 1992), pp. 75-81
Early Coastal Subsistence Patterns in Central Chile
Curaumilla-1 presents the earliest date for Archaic coastal occupation and marine exploitation in central Chile (8,500 years B. P.). The remains of marine invertebrates from this site at Punta Curaumilla were studied. The number of present species, minimum number of individuals for 14 species, and mean sizes of two of these species were established. Recent studies have demonstrated that modern shellfish gatherers are important modifiers of rocky-…
Late Holocene coastal change in the southwestern Cape, South Africa
Late Holocene Neoglacial episodes in southern South America and southern Africa
Palaeoenvironmental evidence from existing late-Holocene palaeoenvironmental sequences suggests that important atmospheric and oceanographic changes took place during the last 5000 years in southern South America and southern Africa. Several oscillations were contemporary with three well- known Neoglacial episodes that occurred between about 4500 and 4000 BP, between 3000 and 2000 BP and during the last 1000 years. The scale of change involved du…
The Problem with Density Values in Archaeological Analysis
This paper attempts to explain the generating factors behind density values of materials recovered from prehistoric archaeological excavations. Various categories of archaeological remains from Tortoise Cave were analysed for this purpose. Densities offer limited interpretative power when rates of deposition in smallscale excavations are unknown and only poor chronological control is available. It is suggested that, when evaluated interactively, …
Preliminary Results from Excavations at Steenbokfontein Cave
Antonieta Jerardino, Royden Yates, Preliminary Results from Excavations at Steenbokfontein Cave: Implications for Past and Future Research, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 51, No. 163 (Jun., 1996), pp. 7-16
Changes in Shellfish Species Composition and Mean Shell Size from a Late-Holocene Record of the West Coast of Southern Africa
Excavations at Mike Taylor's Midden
Despite considerable interest over the past twenty years, observations on the archaeology of the large shell midden known as Mike Taylor's Midden (MTM), near Eland's Bay on the South African west coast, have remained largely unpublished. This paper summarises excavations at MTM from the 1970s to the 1990s, and discusses interpretations of this and other large shell middens which appeared on the west coast between about 3000 and 2000 BP. It is arg…
Excavations at Pancho's Kitchen Midden, Western Cape Coast, South Africa
Antonieta Jerardino, Excavations at Pancho's Kitchen Midden, Western Cape Coast, South Africa: Further Observations into the Megamidden Period, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 53, No. 167 (Jun., 1998), pp. 16-25
A First Account of Fat-Tailed Sheep in the Rock Paintings of the Western Cape Coast
Painted Slabs from Steenbokfontein Cave
An Infant Burial from Steenbokfontein Cave, West Coast, South Africa
Antonieta Jerardino, Judith Sealy, Susan Pfeiffer, An Infant Burial from Steenbokfontein Cave, West Coast, South Africa: Its Archaeological, Nutritional and Anatomical Context, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 171 (Jun., 2000), pp. 44-48
Diversity in mastic-mounted stone adzes and the use of mastic in precolonial South Africa
Composite tools and hafted tools were used world-wide over the last 35,000 years, and possibly earlier than that (Boëda et al. 1996; Holdaway 1996). Evidence for the use of composite tools in South Africa is provided by a small number of arrows from ethnohistorical and archaeological collections (Binneman 1994; Deacon & Deacon 1999: 158-9), a handful of mounted stone artefacts, and a significant number of mastic stained stone artefacts from archa…
Cape Rock Lobster (Jasus lalandii) Remains from South African West Coast Shell Middens
Pre-Colonial Settlement and Subsistence along Sandy Shores South of Elands Bay, West Coast, South Africa
Antonieta Jerardino, Pre-Colonial Settlement and Subsistence along Sandy Shores South of Elands Bay, West Coast, South Africa, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 58, No. 178 (Dec., 2003), pp. 53-62
Excavations at Melkbosstrand
Judith Sealy, Tim Maggs, Antonieta Jerardino, Jonathan Kaplan, Excavations at Melkbosstrand: Variability among Herder Sites on Table Bay, South Africa, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 59, No. 179 (Jun., 2004), pp. 17-28
Shell morphometry of seven limpet species from coastal shell middens in southern Africa
Opportunistic Subsistence Strategies among Late Holocene Coastal Hunter-Gatherers, Elands Bay, South Africa
Hunting and gathering was practiced for many hundreds of thousands of years in South Africa's Western Cape region, until ceramics and a stock-keeping economy first appeared c. 2,000 years ago, and in the Elands Bay and Lamberts Bay areas 200 years later. Subsistence and settlement patterns in this part of the West Coast of South Africa changed dramatically after this date, but the nature of interactions between indigenous groups engaging with the…
Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoscape modeling along the southern coast of South Africa
Large shell middens in Lamberts Bay, South Africa
Shellfish gathering, marine paleoecology and modern human behavior
Large Shell Middens and Hunter-Gatherer Resource Intensification Along the West Coast of South Africa
“Megamiddens” appear along the West Coast of South Africa c. 3000–2000 BP. Kalahari San ethnography was used initially to explain them as processing localities given the massive volumes of marine shell and low densities of other remains. However, recent research in Lamberts Bay using a resource intensification model seems to explain more of the observed archaeological variability. In this paper, the evidence of Elands Bay megamiddens is studied i…
Site Distribution and Chronology at Soutpansklipheuwel, a Rocky Outcrop on the West Coast of South Africa
Archaeological research along the West Coast of South Africa has unveiled a diversity of Holocene adaptive strategies as shown by the different type, size, composition, and distribution of sites and their faunal and artifactual contents. Some differences and similarities are apparent between the northerly semi-desert of Namaqualand and the more central Lamberts Bay and Elands Bay areas. On first impression, this archaeological variability seems r…
Variability in late Holocene shellfish assemblages
Stranded rocky shore mussels and their possible procurement during prehistory on the West Coast of South Africa
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