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COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL
Volume 5, Issue 6, Pages 839-849Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2006.02.003
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Middle Stone Age; South Africa; Howiesons Poort; Stillbay; Diepkloof; lithic techno-complex; chronology
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In the midst of the South African MSA, the Stillbay and Howiesons Poort technological complexes are marked by a set of 'precocious' indicators of modem character of the sort that characterize the industries that follow them. Unfortunately, the relative chronology of these two complexes has remained imprecise: both radiometric dates and relevant archaeological sequences are rare. Excavations begun in 1998 in Diepkloof rockshelter (Western Cape) have provieded a sequence in which the Stillbay facies clearly underlies the Howiesons Poort assemblages. In addition, the Diepkloof Howiesons Poort assemblages have now been dated, by thermo-luminescence, to between 55 and 65 ky.
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