Recent Backed Microlith Production in Central South Africa

Autor:	Angela E. Close, C. Garth Sampson
Rok vydání:	1998
Předmět:	010506 paleontology Archeology River valley 060102 archaeology 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences Archaeology Microlith Prehistory Geography Anthropology Bladelets 0601 history and archaeology Rock shelter 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Zdroj:	Lithic Technology. 23:5-19
ISSN:	2051-6185 0197-7261
DOI:	10.1080/01977261.1998.11720933
Popis:	Several rock shelter excavations in the Seacow River Valley of the upper Karoo region of central South Africa confirm that backed microlith production persisted there until at least AD 1800. It is widely assumed that they were used as arrow tip inserts by the prehistoric ancestors of Bushman hunter-gatherers. Microlith reduction strategies are reconstructed from excavated samples covering the last two millennia. Backed bladelets and point production became increasingly based on the partial backing of larger bladelets, from which the desired form was snapped, leaving a concave-backed stub. Production errors gave rise to a wide variety of partially backed fragments.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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