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1.9 - The Later Stone Age of Southern Africa

from II. - Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2014

By
John Parkington
Edited by
Colin Renfrew  and
Paul Bahn
John Parkington
Affiliation:
University of Cape Town
Colin Renfrew
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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In this summary of the Later Stone Age (LSA) of southernmost Africa, I take a historical and thematic approach, sketching out the initial assumptions and ideas inherent in the generation of the term and following through with methodological and conceptual developments towards the present state of knowledge. I have assumed that such changes in approach by successive archaeologists add to our growing understanding of life in the Later Stone Age rather than replace erroneous versions with more reliable ones. Our current understanding is a composite of the insights gained from a variety of approaches, some theoretically motivated, some not. Despite these cumulative changes, some issues have remained alive through the decades.

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The idea of a Later Stone Age (following an Earlier Stone Age [ESA] and Middle Stone Age [MSA]; see Chapters 1.5 and 1.8) grew out of a series of informal meetings and more formal conferences held across southern Africa in the 1920s. Some participants were amateurs. The professionals involved were, with the exception of John Goodwin, not primarily trained in archaeology but were either natural scientists and fieldworkers attached to museums or practising engineers. The visit of Goodwin’s Cambridge mentor Miles Burkitt to southern Africa in the late 1920s provided the final stimulus towards a regional synthesis (Burkitt 1928; Goodwin & van Riet Lowe 1929), one that remained influential for some time. As elsewhere in the world, the preoccupation then was with the chronological ordering of assemblages of stone tools without the advantage of any absolute dating methodology.

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Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

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