Primordialism and the ‘Pleistocene San’ of southern Africa
Final Reply
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7658461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Pargeter (0000-0001-6536-8568, University of Johannesburg, corresponding author), A Mackay (0000-0002-6396-0821, University of Wollongong), Peter Mitchell (0000-0002-3112-3578, University of the Witwatersrand), J J Shea (0000-0002-4704-636X, Stony Brook University), John Shea, Brian A Stewart (0000-0002-2284-7136, University of the Witwatersrand) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 352 |
| Pages | 1087-1089 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Antiquity Publications (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15184/aqy.2016.131 |
| OpenAlex | W2486731075 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 20 |
We thank our colleagues for their insightful comments. The weight of modern evidence is against the notion that contemporary human cultures can be tracked backwards into the Pleistocene (e.g. Lee & DeVore 1976; Kuper 1988; Wilmsen 1989; Solway & Lee 1990; MacEachern 2000). Modern-day hunter-gatherers are not our Stone Age ancestors. Current protestations notwithstanding, the provocative title that d'Errico and colleagues (2012) chose for their paper, ‘Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa’, unambiguously asserts the opposite. Our critique of that paper's content does not question the robusticity of the methods employed at Border Cave (for this, see Evans 2012). Rather, our comments focus on the theoretically flawed search for a specifically ‘San’ “cultural adaptation” (d'Errico et al . 2012: 13214) at any Pleistocene archaeological site
Archaeology · Cave · Chose · Ethnology · Geography · Pleistocene · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Law · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2020 (4) |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |