Ina Plug
Biographic Data
| ID | 223565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ina Plug |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ina |
| FAMILY NAME | Plug |
| SIGNATURE | PLUG I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 315 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Reply to Horsburgh et al . 2016
The controversy between the DNA and morphological and osteometric identifications of animal remains from Sehonghong in Lesotho is discussed in this paper as a response to Horsburgh et al. (2016a)'s article ‘Bringing the Kalahari debate to the mountains’. Faunal identification procedures are described and base measurements provided. Morphological and osteometric data show that the aDNA result of eland on a morphologically identified sheep must be …
Middle and Later Stone Age hunters and their prey in southern Africa
Identifications of animal remains from southern African Stone Age sites are complicated by the abundancy of taxa, skeletal differences, a wide variety of habitats, and the fragmented condition of most of the bone samples. Studies in osteomorphology and osteometry are essential. There are regional variations in species sizes combined with changes in bone sizes within and between taxa. Seasonality and animal migrations are demonstrated in the highl…
Beyond the drip-line
The activities of hunter-gatherers are often captured in rockshelters, but here the authors present a study of a riverside settlement outside one, with a rich sequence from 1300 BC to AD 800. Thanks to frequent flooding, periods of occupation were sealed and could be examined in situ. The phytolith and faunal record, especially fish, chronicle changing climate and patterns of subsistence, emphasising that the story here is no predictable one-way …
Late Holocene fishing strategies in southern Africa as seen from Likoaeng, highland Lesotho
In memoriam – Elizabeth (Liz) Anne Voigt (1944–2010)
Fishing in the Lesotho Highlands
Significant numbers of fish bones have been identified from three Later Stone Age sites in the Lesotho Highlands. They comprise two rock-shelters on the Sehonghong River, Sehonghong and Pitsaneng, and one open-air campsite on the banks of the Senqu River, Likoaeng. Pitsaneng was occupied during the second millennium AD and Likoaeng for much of the Postclassic Wilton, ca 4000-1200 bp. Sehonghong, in contrast, has a history of fish exploitation spa…
Bringing the Kalahari debate to the mountains
Archaeological debates in southern Africa over the implications of hunter-gatherer interactions with farmers and herders have hitherto tended to privilege two regions, the Kalahari, where the eponymous Kalahari debate itself first took shape, and the southwestern part of South Africa's Western Cape Province. The Maloti-Drakensberg region has largely been ignored in these discussions except in the work of Pieter Jolly, who has long argued for the …
Animal exploitation strategies during the South African Middle Stone Age
Spatial Patterning and Site Occupation at Likoaeng, an Open-Air Hunter-Gatherer Campsite in the Lesotho Highlands, Southern Africa
Archaeologists studying southern African hunter-gatherers are increasingly interested in investigating issues of broader anthropological interest, including gender relations, the ways in which people organized their living space, and the sharing of food. With this interest has come the recognition that rockshelter deposits may hold limited potential for the exploration of these questions because of the palimpsest effects and disturbance created b…
Transvaal Museum Monograph 12
Herders and Foragers on Kasteelberg
Smith et al. (1991) proposed a model to distinguish the archaeological sites of Khoekhoe pastoralists from those of San. This model was based on information gathered from sites scattered over hundreds of square kilometres and several millennia. Between 1999 and 2002 we re-examined Smith et al. s (1991) model by excavating six neighbouring contemporary sites on the hill Kasteelberg. In a previous survey, three of these sites had been provisionally…
Late Iron Age Sites on Mmatshetshele Mountain in the Central Bankeveld of the North West Province, South Africa
Julius C. C. Pistorius, Shaw Badenhorst, Ina Plug, Late Iron Age Sites on Mmatshetshele Mountain in the Central Bankeveld of the North West Province, South Africa, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 56, No. 173/174 (Dec., 2001), pp. 46-56
Faunal Remains in the Transition from Hunting to Herding in Southeastern Botswana
Because foragers became pastoralists so late in southern Africa, their well-preserved remains can help us better understand the original herders of this world. The dominant thinking is that becoming herders is hard. Hunters share meat, herders keep it to themselves. Perhaps only a few hunters ever bridged this gap: the socially important habit of sharing meat may have held the rest back. Following this line of thinking, herding must have reached …
Overview of Iron Age Fauna from the Limpopo Valley
Animal Remains from Industrial Iron Age Communities in Phalaborwa, South Africa
Some Evidence for Seasonality amongst Later Stone Age Hunter-gatherers in Southern Africa
The Later Stone Age (LSA) period in Southern Africa is characterised by a succession of cultural traditions. The LSA hunter-gatherer populations were ancestral to the present-day San. They moved around in small bands, within a semi-fixed territory visiting open air and shelter sites to coincide with available resources.The hunter-gatherers filled every niche in the environment, including the high mountains, deserts and semi-deserts, bush savanna …
Some Evidence for Seasonality amongst Later Stone Age Hunter-gatherers in Southern Africa
The Later Stone Age (LSA) period in Southern Africa is characterised by a succession of cultural traditions. The LSA hunter-gatherer populations were ancestral to the present-day San. They moved around in small bands, within a semi-fixed territory visiting open air and shelter sites to coincide with available resources.The hunter-gatherers filled every niche in the environment, including the high mountains, deserts and semi-deserts, bush savanna …
Early iron age buffalo hunters on the Kadzi river, Zimbabwe
Pits, Tunnels and Cattle in Nyanga, Zimbabwe
Muozi Hill Later Iron Age site is part of the Nyanga complex of terraces and pit structures. The debate on the use of these structures has been raging for many decades. The faunal material from the Muozi Hill site provides evidence for dwarf cattle, 20% or more smaller than modern African breeds. These animals are, on average, smaller than any cattle thus far identified from the southern African Iron Age. This in itself does not necessarily prove…
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Hunter–Gatherers in the Eastern Highlands of South Africa and Lesotho
European and Bushman Impacts on Karoo Fauna in the Nineteenth Century
Kings, Commoners and Cattle at Zimbabwe Tradition Sites
Two Later Stone Age Sites on the Farm Honingklip in the Eastern Transvaal
The Macrofaunal Remains from Recent Excavations at Rose Cottage Cave, Orange Free State
MNI Counts as Estimates of Species Abundance
Animal exploitation strategies during the South African Middle Stone Age
The Macrofaunal Remains from Recent Excavations at Rose Cottage Cave, Orange Free State
Bone Tools and Shell, Bone and Ostrich Eggshell Beads from Bushman Rock Shelter (BRS), Eastern Transvaal
Some Research Results on the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Deposits of Bushman Rock Shelter, Eastern Transvaal
I. Plug, Some Research Results on the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Deposits of Bushman Rock Shelter, Eastern Transvaal, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 36, No. 133 (Jun., 1981), pp. 14-21
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Hunter–Gatherers in the Eastern Highlands of South Africa and Lesotho
Late Holocene fishing strategies in southern Africa as seen from Likoaeng, highland Lesotho
Beyond the drip-line
The activities of hunter-gatherers are often captured in rockshelters, but here the authors present a study of a riverside settlement outside one, with a rich sequence from 1300 BC to AD 800. Thanks to frequent flooding, periods of occupation were sealed and could be examined in situ. The phytolith and faunal record, especially fish, chronicle changing climate and patterns of subsistence, emphasising that the story here is no predictable one-way …
Bringing the Kalahari debate to the mountains
Archaeological debates in southern Africa over the implications of hunter-gatherer interactions with farmers and herders have hitherto tended to privilege two regions, the Kalahari, where the eponymous Kalahari debate itself first took shape, and the southwestern part of South Africa's Western Cape Province. The Maloti-Drakensberg region has largely been ignored in these discussions except in the work of Pieter Jolly, who has long argued for the …
The Faunal Remains from Recent Excavations at uMgungundlovu
Herders and Foragers on Kasteelberg
Smith et al. (1991) proposed a model to distinguish the archaeological sites of Khoekhoe pastoralists from those of San. This model was based on information gathered from sites scattered over hundreds of square kilometres and several millennia. Between 1999 and 2002 we re-examined Smith et al. s (1991) model by excavating six neighbouring contemporary sites on the hill Kasteelberg. In a previous survey, three of these sites had been provisionally…
MNI Counts as Estimates of Species Abundance
Animal Remains from Industrial Iron Age Communities in Phalaborwa, South Africa
Kings, Commoners and Cattle at Zimbabwe Tradition Sites
Spatial Patterning and Site Occupation at Likoaeng, an Open-Air Hunter-Gatherer Campsite in the Lesotho Highlands, Southern Africa
Archaeologists studying southern African hunter-gatherers are increasingly interested in investigating issues of broader anthropological interest, including gender relations, the ways in which people organized their living space, and the sharing of food. With this interest has come the recognition that rockshelter deposits may hold limited potential for the exploration of these questions because of the palimpsest effects and disturbance created b…
Pits, Tunnels and Cattle in Nyanga, Zimbabwe
Muozi Hill Later Iron Age site is part of the Nyanga complex of terraces and pit structures. The debate on the use of these structures has been raging for many decades. The faunal material from the Muozi Hill site provides evidence for dwarf cattle, 20% or more smaller than modern African breeds. These animals are, on average, smaller than any cattle thus far identified from the southern African Iron Age. This in itself does not necessarily prove…
Namakala and Nanga
Middle and Later Stone Age hunters and their prey in southern Africa
Identifications of animal remains from southern African Stone Age sites are complicated by the abundancy of taxa, skeletal differences, a wide variety of habitats, and the fragmented condition of most of the bone samples. Studies in osteomorphology and osteometry are essential. There are regional variations in species sizes combined with changes in bone sizes within and between taxa. Seasonality and animal migrations are demonstrated in the highl…
Fishing in the Lesotho Highlands
Significant numbers of fish bones have been identified from three Later Stone Age sites in the Lesotho Highlands. They comprise two rock-shelters on the Sehonghong River, Sehonghong and Pitsaneng, and one open-air campsite on the banks of the Senqu River, Likoaeng. Pitsaneng was occupied during the second millennium AD and Likoaeng for much of the Postclassic Wilton, ca 4000-1200 bp. Sehonghong, in contrast, has a history of fish exploitation spa…
Early iron age buffalo hunters on the Kadzi river, Zimbabwe
European and Bushman Impacts on Karoo Fauna in the Nineteenth Century
Reply to Horsburgh et al . 2016
The controversy between the DNA and morphological and osteometric identifications of animal remains from Sehonghong in Lesotho is discussed in this paper as a response to Horsburgh et al. (2016a)'s article ‘Bringing the Kalahari debate to the mountains’. Faunal identification procedures are described and base measurements provided. Morphological and osteometric data show that the aDNA result of eland on a morphologically identified sheep must be …
In memoriam – Elizabeth (Liz) Anne Voigt (1944–2010)
Late Iron Age Sites on Mmatshetshele Mountain in the Central Bankeveld of the North West Province, South Africa
Julius C. C. Pistorius, Shaw Badenhorst, Ina Plug, Late Iron Age Sites on Mmatshetshele Mountain in the Central Bankeveld of the North West Province, South Africa, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 56, No. 173/174 (Dec., 2001), pp. 46-56
Faunal Remains in the Transition from Hunting to Herding in Southeastern Botswana
Because foragers became pastoralists so late in southern Africa, their well-preserved remains can help us better understand the original herders of this world. The dominant thinking is that becoming herders is hard. Hunters share meat, herders keep it to themselves. Perhaps only a few hunters ever bridged this gap: the socially important habit of sharing meat may have held the rest back. Following this line of thinking, herding must have reached …
Two Later Stone Age Sites on the Farm Honingklip in the Eastern Transvaal
The Faunal Remains from Wildebeestfontein
Namakala and Nanga
Some Research Results on the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Deposits of Bushman Rock Shelter, Eastern Transvaal
I. Plug, Some Research Results on the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Deposits of Bushman Rock Shelter, Eastern Transvaal, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 36, No. 133 (Jun., 1981), pp. 14-21
Bone Tools and Shell, Bone and Ostrich Eggshell Beads from Bushman Rock Shelter (BRS), Eastern Transvaal
Aspects of Life in the Kruger National Park during the Early Iron Age
MNI Counts as Estimates of Species Abundance
The Faunal Remains from Recent Excavations at uMgungundlovu
The Macrofaunal Remains from Recent Excavations at Rose Cottage Cave, Orange Free State
Two Later Stone Age Sites on the Farm Honingklip in the Eastern Transvaal
European and Bushman Impacts on Karoo Fauna in the Nineteenth Century
Kings, Commoners and Cattle at Zimbabwe Tradition Sites
Early iron age buffalo hunters on the Kadzi river, Zimbabwe
Pits, Tunnels and Cattle in Nyanga, Zimbabwe
Muozi Hill Later Iron Age site is part of the Nyanga complex of terraces and pit structures. The debate on the use of these structures has been raging for many decades. The faunal material from the Muozi Hill site provides evidence for dwarf cattle, 20% or more smaller than modern African breeds. These animals are, on average, smaller than any cattle thus far identified from the southern African Iron Age. This in itself does not necessarily prove…
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Hunter–Gatherers in the Eastern Highlands of South Africa and Lesotho
Some Evidence for Seasonality amongst Later Stone Age Hunter-gatherers in Southern Africa
The Later Stone Age (LSA) period in Southern Africa is characterised by a succession of cultural traditions. The LSA hunter-gatherer populations were ancestral to the present-day San. They moved around in small bands, within a semi-fixed territory visiting open air and shelter sites to coincide with available resources.The hunter-gatherers filled every niche in the environment, including the high mountains, deserts and semi-deserts, bush savanna …
Some Evidence for Seasonality amongst Later Stone Age Hunter-gatherers in Southern Africa
The Later Stone Age (LSA) period in Southern Africa is characterised by a succession of cultural traditions. The LSA hunter-gatherer populations were ancestral to the present-day San. They moved around in small bands, within a semi-fixed territory visiting open air and shelter sites to coincide with available resources.The hunter-gatherers filled every niche in the environment, including the high mountains, deserts and semi-deserts, bush savanna …
Animal Remains from Industrial Iron Age Communities in Phalaborwa, South Africa
Overview of Iron Age Fauna from the Limpopo Valley
Late Iron Age Sites on Mmatshetshele Mountain in the Central Bankeveld of the North West Province, South Africa
Julius C. C. Pistorius, Shaw Badenhorst, Ina Plug, Late Iron Age Sites on Mmatshetshele Mountain in the Central Bankeveld of the North West Province, South Africa, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 56, No. 173/174 (Dec., 2001), pp. 46-56
Faunal Remains in the Transition from Hunting to Herding in Southeastern Botswana
Because foragers became pastoralists so late in southern Africa, their well-preserved remains can help us better understand the original herders of this world. The dominant thinking is that becoming herders is hard. Hunters share meat, herders keep it to themselves. Perhaps only a few hunters ever bridged this gap: the socially important habit of sharing meat may have held the rest back. Following this line of thinking, herding must have reached …
Herders and Foragers on Kasteelberg
Smith et al. (1991) proposed a model to distinguish the archaeological sites of Khoekhoe pastoralists from those of San. This model was based on information gathered from sites scattered over hundreds of square kilometres and several millennia. Between 1999 and 2002 we re-examined Smith et al. s (1991) model by excavating six neighbouring contemporary sites on the hill Kasteelberg. In a previous survey, three of these sites had been provisionally…
Transvaal Museum Monograph 12
Spatial Patterning and Site Occupation at Likoaeng, an Open-Air Hunter-Gatherer Campsite in the Lesotho Highlands, Southern Africa
Archaeologists studying southern African hunter-gatherers are increasingly interested in investigating issues of broader anthropological interest, including gender relations, the ways in which people organized their living space, and the sharing of food. With this interest has come the recognition that rockshelter deposits may hold limited potential for the exploration of these questions because of the palimpsest effects and disturbance created b…
Fishing in the Lesotho Highlands
Significant numbers of fish bones have been identified from three Later Stone Age sites in the Lesotho Highlands. They comprise two rock-shelters on the Sehonghong River, Sehonghong and Pitsaneng, and one open-air campsite on the banks of the Senqu River, Likoaeng. Pitsaneng was occupied during the second millennium AD and Likoaeng for much of the Postclassic Wilton, ca 4000-1200 bp. Sehonghong, in contrast, has a history of fish exploitation spa…
Bringing the Kalahari debate to the mountains
Archaeological debates in southern Africa over the implications of hunter-gatherer interactions with farmers and herders have hitherto tended to privilege two regions, the Kalahari, where the eponymous Kalahari debate itself first took shape, and the southwestern part of South Africa's Western Cape Province. The Maloti-Drakensberg region has largely been ignored in these discussions except in the work of Pieter Jolly, who has long argued for the …
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