Modern Plant Checklists for Ten Middle Stone Age Archaeological Sites of the Western and Eastern Cape, South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21213925 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Lombard (0000-0002-0675-0414, University of Johannesburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Open Archaeology Data (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-1565 • E-ISSN: 2049-1565 |
| Publisher | Ubiquity Press, Ltd. (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5334/joad.124 |
| OpenAlex | W4399544711 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
This dataset provides plant checklists generated from data recorded over the last ~200 years and curated by the South African National Biodiversity Institute. The data was collected and organised to identify species growing within roughly day-range, home-range and regional foraging tiers around ten archaeological sites with Middle Stone Age deposits in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. It forms part of a larger project about Stone Age phyto-fitness landscapes of southern Africa. The data provide modern vegetation inventories as catalyst for exploring the phyto-fitness potential of certain landscapes in terms foodplants, fuelwood, medicinal and other useful plants. Archaeo-botanical remains, archaeo-botanical surveys and palaeo-climatic data can be used to assess, strengthen and/or constrain the resulting hypotheses
Ancient history · Archaeology · Cape · Geography · Later Stone Age · Middle Stone Age · Pleistocene · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |