The Significance of the Archaeological Discoveries at Hopefield, South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8033399 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald Singer (0000-0003-4915-3262, corresponding author), James Crawford, James R Crawford |
| Year | 1958 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-11 |
| Publication date | 1958-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-3114 • E-ISSN: 2397-2556 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2844072 |
| OpenAlex | W2314671572 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 9 |
THE GENERAL LOCATION AND APPEARANCE of the four square miles of fossiliferous and implementiferous sands on the farm 'Elandsfontein', ten miles from Hopefield and ioo miles from Cape Town, have previously been referred to (Drennan I954; Singer I954), and a fairly comprehensive report on the surface geology has now been published (Mabbutt I956). Since the location of the site by one of us (R.S.) in I95I, approximately i,ooo artifacts and over 6oo debitage fragments as well as more than 3,500 fossil specimens, including those of the Saldanha Skull, have been collected by a small team of the staff and students of the University of Cape Town. During the past few months intensive classification and indexing of the specimens have been undertaken. A number of reports on the human Saldanha cranial and mandibular fragments have appeared (Drennan I954; Singer 1954; Drennan & Singer I955), while the fossil su4formes (Singer & Keen I955; Keen & Singer I956) and carnivora (Ewer & Singer I956) have been described. As only brief notes have been written previously on the archaeological discoveries, it has been considered essential to place on record a statistical survey of the stone implements and to discuss some of their significant applications
Ancient history · Archaeology · Geography · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
The Fauna and Overall Interpretation of the “Cutting 10” Acheulean Site at Elandsfontein (Hopefield), Southwestern Cape Province, South Africa
Age (Mortality) Profiles as a Means of Distinguishing Hunted Species from Scavenged Ones in Stone Age Archeological Sites
The Archaeology of the West Coast of South Africa
Additional fossil Theropithecus from Hopefield, South Africa
History of physical anthropology in Southern Africa
Studies on the condition and structure of bone of the Saldanha fossil cranium
A Complete Fossil Equid Skull from Hopefield, C.P
Late Pleistocene Techno-traditions in Southern Africa
A Geoarchaeological Study of the Middle and Upper Pleistocene Levels at Canteen Kopje, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Zooarchaeological reconstruction of newly excavated Middle Pleistocene deposits from Elandsfontein, South Africa
Archaeological Investigations at the Saldanha Skull Site in South Africa
The bovids from Elandsfontein, South Africa, and their implications for the age, palaeoenvironment, and origins of the site
The archaeological significance of animal bones from Acheulean sites in southern Africa
The mammalian fauna associated with an archaic hominin skullcap and later Acheulean artifacts at Elandsfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Environment and subsistence of prehistoric man in the southern Cape Province, South Africa
The Origin and Chronology of the Fauresmith Culture
Geomorphology, Archaeology and Anthropology from Bok Baai, Darling District, Cape Province
The saldanha skull from hopefield, South Africa
The special features and status of the Saldanha skull
Fossil Man in the Lebombo Mountains, South Africa
New Studies on Rhodesian Man
The "Bone Tools" from Hopefield
Saldanha Man and His Associations
| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 1962 - 2017 (56) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |