The Twin Rivers Kopje, Zambia: Stratigraphy, fauna, and artefact assemblages from the 1954 and 1956 excavations

Authors / Editors

Clark, John Desmond

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Publication Details

Output type: Journal article

Author list: Clark J., Brown K.

Publisher: Elsevier

Publication year: 2001

Journal: Journal of Archaeological Science (0305-4403)

Volume number: 28

Issue number: 3

Start page: 305

End page: 330

Number of pages: 26

ISSN: 0305-4403

eISSN: 1095-9238

URL: http://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id:0035085310

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Abstract

Earlier Lupemban assemblages from brecciated fissure sediments on Twin Rivers Kopje are of great interest in view of the appreciably greater antiquity recently suggested for the earlier Middle Stone Age. The Twin Rivers assemblages are compared with those from Kalambo Falls, the Congo Basin, and Zimbabwe. The assemblages combine components from both the forested grasslands of Equatoria and the savanna woodlands of east and south-central Africa. Faunal remains suggest that the early Middle Stone Age sequence reflects several episodes of climatic change between > 130,000 years BP and <95,000 years BP. © 2001 Academic Press.

Keywords

Ecotone, Heavy and light duty tools, Lanceolates, Lower Lupemban, Pleistocene, Twin Rivers Kopje

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