The Pleistocene Later Stone Age south of the Limpopo River
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7324947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Wadley (0000-0003-0053-0813, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 243-296 |
| Publication date | 1993-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of World Prehistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0892-7537 • E-ISSN: 1573-7802 |
| Publisher | Springer Nature (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1007/bf00974721 |
| OpenAlex | W2028038615 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 98 |
| References cited | 80 |
Archaeology · Cave · Colonization · Geography · Holocene · Last Glacial Maximum · Later Stone Age · Pleistocene · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Coastal occupation and foraging during the last glacial maximum and early Holocene at Waterfall Bluff, eastern Pondoland, South Africa
Perspectives on Later Stone Age Hunter‐Gatherer Archaeology in Arid Southern Africa
African Stone Age
At the Transition
African Archaeology
Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa
Border Cave and the beginning of the Later Stone Age in South Africa
Ochre and hide-working during the early bronze age at Dhaskalio, central Cyclades
Holocene later stone age hunter-gatherers south of the Limpopo River, Ca. 10,000-2000 B.P
Late Pleistocene Osseous Projectile Technology and Cultural Variability
Why Anatomically Modern People Did Not Disperse from Africa 100,000 Years Ago
Human Evolution, Archaeology and the South African Stone Age Landscape During the Last 100,000 Years
Osseous Projectile Weaponry from Early to Late Middle Stone Age Africa
The Late Quaternary Hominins of Africa
The Southern African Stone Age Site Index (Sassi)
Lithic Technological Approaches to the African Late Pleistocene Later Stone Age
Hunter–Gatherer Land Use Patterns in Later Stone Age East Africa
Exceptions to the rule? Ethnographic alternatives to cumulative cultural evolution
What is Cultural Modernity? A General View and a South African Perspective from Rose Cottage Cave
A Tale From Three Regions
Revisiting the Robberg
Middle and Later Stone Age Technology from the Lake Rukwa Rift, Southwestern Tanzania
Hunter-gatherer archaeology in southern Africa
What Is a Hunter-Gatherer? Variation in the Archaeological Record of Eastern and Southern Africa
Physical Environment and Site Choice in South Africa
Faunal Exploitation Strategies During the Later Pleistocene in Southern Africa
The Last Glacial Maximum Microblades from Kashiwadai 1 in Hokkaido, Japan
Continuity, Variability and the Nature of Technological Change During the Late Pleistocene at Klipfonteinrand Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa
An often overlooked resource
The Technology of the Early Oakhurst Lithic Techno-Complex from Klipdrift Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa
Regional Variability in Lithic Miniaturization and the Organization of Technology in Late Glacial Southern Africa (~18-11 kcal BP)
The technology and ecology of Lesotho's highland hunter-gatherers
Robberg Lithic Technology from Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1
Reduction intensity of backed blades
A microstratigraphic reevaluation of the Florisbad spring site, Free State Province, South Africa
The Earlier Stone Age of Southern Africa
The Early Holocene Layers of Rose Cottage Cave, Eastern Free State
Excavations at Klipfonteinrand Reveal Local and Regional Patterns of Adaptation and Interaction Through MIS 2 in Southern Africa
Contextual approaches to studying unretouched bladelets
The Organization of Later Stone Age Lithic Technology in the Caledon Valley, Southern Africa
Tangzigou open-air site
The Early Later Stone Age in East Africa
A useful measure of the desirability of different raw materials for retouch within and between assemblages
Isolation and the origin of the khoisan
Robberg Material Procurement and Transport in the Doring River Catchment
I Can Do It’ Becomes ‘We Do It’
Beads, pigments and early Holocene ornamental traditions at Bushman Rock Shelter, South Africa
A late Pleistocene microlithic Later Stone Age assemblage from coastal Namaqualand, South Africa
Across Forests and Savannas
The effects of Class I and II sized bovids on macrofracture formation and tool displacement
A late Middle Stone Age artifact assemblage from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal)
Cultural Developments Between the Final MSA and the Robberg at Umbeli Belli, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Archaeology, Palaeoenvironment, and Chronology of the Tsodilo Hills White Paintings Rock Shelter, Northwest Kalahari Desert, Botswana
Lithic miniaturization in Late Pleistocene southern Africa
Palaeoenvironments and Cultural Sequence of the Florisbad Middle Stone Age Hominid Site, South Africa
The tip cross-sectional areas of poisoned bone arrowheads from southern Africa
Early LGM Environments Accelerated the MSA/LSA Transition in Southern African Highlands
Backed Pieces and Their Variability in the Later Stone Age of the Horn of Africa
The MSA/LSA Transition in Southern Africa
Quantifying and Comparing Bipolar Versus Freehand Flake Morphologies, Production Currencies, and Reduction Energetics During Lithic Miniaturization
The emergence, spread, and termination of the Early Later Stone Age event in South Africa and southern Namibia
Technical microwear and residues in identifying bipolar knapping on an anvil
New knapping methods in the Howiesons Poort at Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
The late Quaternary of the Lesotho highlands, southern Africa
Putslaagte 1 (PL1), the Doring River, and the later Middle Stone Age in southern Africa's Winter Rainfall Zone
Prehistoric exchange and interaction in southeastern southern africa
An empirical test of the relative frequency of bipolar reduction in Beds VI, V, and III at Mumba Rockshelter, Tanzania
The Robberg Industry of Rose Cottage Cave, Eastern Free State
Blade technology and tool forms in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa
Two Late Pleistocene-Holocene Archaeological Depositories from the Southern Cape, South Africa
The Howiesons Poort and MSA III at Klasies River main site, Cave 1A
The Emergence of Ornaments and Art
Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa
Body size among Holocene foragers of the Cape Ecozone, southern Africa
Reading the Rocks and Reviewing Red Herrings
Re-examining the South African Middle-to-Later Stone Age transition
Primordialism and the ‘Pleistocene San’ of southern Africa
Spatial and Temporal Scales of Patterning in Open-Air Surface Scatters Along the Doring River, South Africa
The Chronology and Taphonomy of the Earliest Aurignacian and Its Implications for the Understanding of Neandertal Extinction
Coping with risk
Spatial and temporal trends in the distribution of engraved eggshell fragments
The Human Symbolic Revolution
Understanding Early Later Stone Age technology at a landscape-scale
Landscape-scale perspectives on Later Stone Age settlement in the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa
Stone Age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Clanwilliam, Western Cape, South Africa
Seasons of Change
The revolution that wasn't
Climatic controls on Later Stone Age human adaptation in Africa's southern Cape
Taphonomic and paleoecological change in the large mammal sequence from Boomplaas Cave, western Cape, South Africa
The Marine Isotope Stage 5 (∼105 ka) lithic assemblage from Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter and insights into social transmission across the Kalahari Basin and its environs
Coalescence and fragmentation in the late Pleistocene archaeology of southernmost Africa
Open-air preservation of miniaturised lithics
Between the hammerstone and the anvil
Beads and bead residues as windows to past behaviours and taphonomy
Luminescence and radiocarbon dating the Naisiusiu Beds type section and timing of the Middle Stone Age/Later Stone Age transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
An archaeological radiocarbon database for southern Africa
The Interpretation of Bipolar Knapping in African Stone Age Studies
Technological Trends in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa between MIS 7 and MIS 3
The stone age industries of the Orange River scheme and South Africa
Specimens of Bushman Folklore
The Kung San
Where hunters gathered
Politics and history in band societies
Ghaap and Gariep
Size variation in the Cape dune molerat ( Bathyergus suillus ) and late Quaternary climatic change in the southwestern Cape Province, South Africa
A Late Quaternary Pollen Record from the Transvaal Bushveld, South Africa
Changing Patterns in the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Prehistory of Southern Africa as Seen from the Nelson Bay Cave Stone Artifact Sequence
Environmental, ecological, and paleoanthropological implications of the late Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Equus Cave, northern Cape Province, South Africa
Late Cenozoic Paleoclimates of the Gaap Escarpment, Kalahari margin, South Africa
The Middle Stone Age at Klasies River mouth in South Africa
Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of southern Africa
The Late Quaternary Mammalian Fauna of Nelson Bay Cave (Cape Province, South Africa)
The Reaction against Analogy
The Emergence of Modern Humans
Background to Evolution in Africa
The stone age archaeology of Southern Africa
Hunter and Habitat in the Central Kalahari Desert
Reconstructing How Early People Exploited Animals
Later Stone Age Hunters and Gatherers of the Southern Transvaal
The Later Stone Age of the Drakensberg Range and its Foothills
Dating the Rock Art of Southern Africa
A Review of the Post-Pleistocene in South Africa
Years of Hunter-Gatherer History in Natal as Seen from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter
Reconsidering the behavioral basis for style
Advances in world archaeology
Art Mobilier' from the Apollo 11 Cave, South West Africa
Prehistory of the Matjes River Rock Shelter
Rose Cottage Cave
Bushman Rock Shelter, Ohrigstad, Eastern Transvaal
A Preliminary Report on Recent Excavations of Middle and Late Stone Age Levels at Sibebe Shelter, North-West Swaziland
A Preliminary Report on Excavations at Byneskranskop, Bredasdorp District, Cape
A Preliminary Report on Test Excavations at Dikbosch Shelter I, Herbert District, Northern Cape
Excavations in the Buffelskloof Rock Shelter near Calitzdorp, Southern Cape
Patterns in the Age and Context of Rock Art in the Northern Cape
The Mammalian Fauna from the Middle and Later Stone Age (Later Pleistocene) Levels of Border Cave, Natal Province, South Africa
Later Stone Age Hunters and Gatherers of the Southern Transvaal
Later Stone Age Faunal Samples from Heuningneskrans Shelter (Transvaal) and Leopard's Hill Cave (Zambia)
Atlas of Stone Age Settlement in the Central and Upper Seacow Valley
Bone Tools and Shell, Bone and Ostrich Eggshell Beads from Bushman Rock Shelter (BRS), Eastern Transvaal
A 22 000 Year-Old Middle Stone Age Camp Site with Plant Food Remains from the North-Eastern Cape
Some Research Results on the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Deposits of Bushman Rock Shelter, Eastern Transvaal
Florisbad—New investigations at a middle stone age Hominid Site in South Africa
The Bipolar Technique in Southern Africa
Social and Ecological Models for the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa
A Preliminary Report on the Larger Mammals from the Boomplaas Stone Age Cave Site, Cango Valley, Oudtshoorn District, South Africa
Late Pleistocene Sea Levels and the Human Exploitation of the Shore and Shelf of Southern South Africa
Pretoria Radiocarbon Dates II
Groningen Radiocarbon Dates X
Pretoria Radiocarbon Dates III
University of Cambridge Natural Radiocarbon Measurements XII
University of Washington Dates IV
Köln Radiocarbon Measurements II
Pretoria Radiocarbon Dates I
Groningen Radiocarbon Dates IX
La Jolla Natural Radiocarbon Measurements VII
La Jolla Natural Radiocarbon Measurements II
University of Cambridge Natural Radiocarbon Measurements X
The Middle Stone Age south of the Limpopo River
On a new radiocarbon chronology for Africa south of the Equator
Territoriality Among Human Foragers
Comparative studies of Late Pleistocene human remains from Klasies River Mouth, South Africa
New observations on the prehistory and palaeoclimate of the Late Pleistocene in southern Africa
The Peopling of Southern Africa
Excavations at Boomplaas cave - a sequence through the upper Pleistocene and Holocene in South Africa
Long term hunter-gatherer adaptation to desert environments
Environment and subsistence of prehistoric man in the southern Cape Province, South Africa
Style and Social Information in Kalahari San Projectile Points
The Dating of Industrial Assemblages from Stratified Sites in Eastern Lesotho
| Unique citing works | 98 |
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| Citations per year | 3,16 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 97 |