Robberg Material Procurement and Transport in the Doring River Catchment: Evidence from the Open-Air Locality of Uitspankraal 9, Western Cape, South Africa

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2020-12-17 DOI:10.1163/21915784-20200013

Sara Watson, Marika Low, N. Phillips, Corey A. O’Driscoll, Matthew Shaw, Christopher J. H. Ames, Z. Jacobs, A. Mackay

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Abstract

Decisions related to the production of lithic technology involve landscape-scale patterns of resource acquisition and transport that are not observable in assemblages from any one single site. In this study, we describe the stone artifacts from a discrete cluster of stone artifacts assigned to the Robberg technocomplex (22-16 ka) at the open-air locality of Uitspankraal 9 (UPK9), which is located near two major sources of toolstone in the Doring River catchment of Western Cape, South Africa. OSL dating of the underlying sediment unit provides a terminus post quem age of 27.5 ± 2.1 ka for the assemblage. Comparison of near-source artifact reduction at UPK9 with data from three rock shelter assemblages within the Doring watershed – Putslaagte 8 (PL8), Klipfonteinrand Rock Shelter (KFR), and Mertenhof Rock Shelter (MRS) – suggests that “gearing-up” with cores and blanks occurred along the river in anticipation of transport into the wider catchment area. The results reveal an integrated system of technological supply in which raw materials from different sources were acquired, reduced, and transported in different ways throughout the Doring River region.

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Doring河流域的Robberg材料采购和运输：来自南非西开普省Uitspankraal 9露天地区的证据

与石器技术生产有关的决定涉及资源获取和运输的景观尺度模式，这些模式在任何一个单一地点的组合中都无法观察到。在这项研究中，我们描述了在Uitspankraal 9 (UPK9)露天地区的Robberg技术综合体(22-16 ka)的离散石质文物群中的石质文物，该地区位于南非西开普省多林河流域的两个主要工具石来源附近。下伏沉积物单元的OSL定年为该组合提供了27.5±2.1 ka的终点后年龄。UPK9的近源人工减少与多林流域内三个岩石掩体组合的数据进行了比较——Putslaagte 8 (PL8)、Klipfonteinrand岩石掩体(KFR)和Mertenhof岩石掩体(MRS)——表明，岩心和空洞的“加速”发生在河流沿岸，预期会被输送到更广泛的集水区。研究结果揭示了一个综合的技术供应系统，在这个系统中，来自不同来源的原材料以不同的方式在整个多林河地区被获取、减少和运输。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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