Ostrich Eggshell as a Source of Palaeoenvironmental Information in the Arid Interior of South Africa
A Case Study From Wonderwerk Cave
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20071023 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Botha-Brink —Michaela Ecker (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 107-128 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Changing Climates, Ecosystems and Environments Within Arid Southern Africa and Adjoining Regions (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | CRC Press (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1201/b19410-10 |
| OpenAlex | W2480973204 |
| ISBN | 9780429226885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 1 |
Although the general picture of Cenozoic climate change in Africa is broadly understood (Feakins and deMenocal, 2008), the magnitude and drivers of climate change during the early and middle Pleistocene remain poorly recorded, especially on a regional scale. In recent years there has been progress in palaeoclimatic research in East Africa (Potts, 1998, 2013; Maslin and Trauth, 2009; Trauth et al., 2010; Maslin et al., 2014), however, in the south of the continent there are still few stratified, welldated localities that can provide temporal resolution on factors such as rainfall, temperature, seasonality and vegetation cover
Archaeology · Arid · Cave · Eggshell · Geography · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology
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Identifying Asteraceae, particularly Tarchonanthus parvicapitulatus, in archaeological charcoal from the Middle Stone Age
Pleistocene environments in the southern Kalahari of South Africa
Charcoal from Holocene deposits at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa
Radiocarbon Dates Constrain the Timing of Environmental and Cultural Shifts in the Holocene Strata of Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa
Approaches to land snail shell bead manufacture in the Early Holocene of Malawi
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |