Molluscan faunal remains from the main site at Klasies River, South Africa, provide evidence for the exploitation of marine shellfish by Middle Stone Age inhabitants during the Late Pleistocene.
In this report, we present recent findings from the South African west (Atlantic) coast, where terrestrial foods are significantly sparser than on the south coast, owing to lower rainfall, and marine foods are …
The mineral wealth of South Africa has been exploited by Homo sapiens for at least 40,000 years and has provided many and varied commodities including gold, platinum and diamonds. This chapter provides a historical perspective on minerals and mining mainly in South Africa, although it does occasionally stray across the borders …
South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) swept to power in 1994 on a pledge to "build a better life for all," winning almost 63% of the vote in the country's first democratic ...
The MSA in South Africa has gained increasing attention in debates about the antiquity of modern human behavior; some researchers arguing that the South African evidence suggests an early origin ...
MINERAL DISCOVERY AND EXPLOITATION IN SOUTH AFRICA (1867-1910) BACKGROUND: Before minerals were discovered in South Africa the people had been economically engaged in subsistence farming. …
Early, intensive marine resource exploitation by Middle Stone Age humans at Ysterfontein 1 rockshelter, South Africa Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 2021 Apr 20;118(16):e2020042118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2020042118.
Ochre is a ubiquitous artefact in Middle Stone Age (MSA) contexts throughout Africa and the Near East. Archaeological evidence for the abrasive processing of ochre to extract pigment powder...
1. Introduction. The relationship between commercial farmers and farm workers in South Africa has been complex and multi-layered since its origins in 'master-slave' relations at the Cape of Good Hope in the seventeenth century (Waldman Citation 1996; Williams Citation 2016), but has always been characterised by power …
Grim History Traced in Sunken Slave Ship Found Off South Africa by Helene Cooper (The New York Times), 31 May 2015; INDIAN SLAVES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A little-known aspect of Indian-South African relations by E. S. Reddy; Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
The African Middle Stone Age (MSA) is the period in human history spanning roughly from 300,000 until 30,000 years ago. Here, we focus on the archaeological record of South Africa, with occasional glimpses at neighboring countries (Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia). During this time, modern humans evolved in Africa and brought forth a number of key
The faunal sample from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and overlying Later Stone Age (LSA) deposits of Diepkloof Rock Shelter (Western Cape Province, South Africa) includes at least 40 taxa, mostly mammals, but also tortoises, snakes, birds (especially ostrich represented by eggshell), and intertidal mollusks. The LSA sample …
Animal exploitation strategies during the South African Middle Stone Age: Howiesons Poort and post-Howiesons Poort fauna from Sibudu Cave. Journal of Human Evolution 54 : 886 –98. CrossRef Google Scholar PubMed
Origins: African Malachite is primarily found in countries across Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. 2. Appearance: This stone is known for its intense green color, which ranges from deep forest green to bright emerald green.
South Africa - Colonial Economy, Resources, Trade: From 1770 to 1870 the region became more fully integrated into the world capitalist economy. Trekboers, who were weakly controlled by the Dutch East India Company, advanced across the semidesert Karoo of the central Cape and collided with African agricultural peoples along a line running …
Africa is endowed with abundant and diverse natural resources and natural capital wealth. According to African Business, close to 8% of the Earth's natural gas reserves, a third of global mineral reserves, and a 10th of the global oil reserves reside in Africa. Also, over two-thirds of the world's arable land and a third of the world's CO2 …
Regarding the antiquity of coastal resource exploitation, the base of the 20-m-thick MSA sequence at Klasies River Main on the south coast of South Africa has long shown …
A number of African states continue to face daunting challenges in their socio-political and economic affairs. Current discourses on Africa's political economy have been dominated by political instability, leadership failures, regional and ethnic strife, economic backwardness, diseases, and high rates of poverty in the general population.
South-African Diamond-Mines, Author unknown, Appleton's Journal, Vol. 5, No. 115, pp. 672-675, (1871). An early description of traveling to the diamond fields and the means used to get there to recover diamonds. The South African Diamond-Fields, Author unknown, The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art, pp. 202-204, (1871). The author …
Die Kelders Cave South Africa 80 ka Middle Stone Age Homo sapiens Tankard & Schweitzer (1976) Apollo II Namibia 70 ka Middle Stone Age Homo sapiens Vogelsang et al. (2010)
Past environmental proxies from the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Journal of African Archaeology, 12(1), 7–24. Article Google Scholar Hodgskiss, T. (2013). Ochre use in the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa: Grinding, rubbing, scoring and engraving. Journal of African Archaeology, 11, 75–95.
When you pour a packet of South African-made sugar into your morning coffee, you can feel good about the fact that the workers who milled, refined, packed, and shipped it are paid relatively decent wages, enjoy basic benefits, and are protected against severe exploitation. In many respects, South African sugar is about as "ethical" as …
Our recent survey found that southern African archaeologists overwhelmingly associate major archaeozoological contributions in the region with pre-2000 bp Stone Age archaeology. This, despite the large body of archaeozoological (and historical) literature that illustrate the rich and complex nature of human-animal interactions during the last 2,000 …
Early, intensive marine resource exploitation by Middle Stone Age humans at Ysterfontein 1 rockshelter, South Africa Elizabeth M. Niespoloa,b,1,2, Warren D. Sharpb, Graham Averyc, and Todd E. Dawsond aDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; bBerkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA 94709; …
South Africa - Diamonds, Gold, Imperialism: South Africa experienced a transformation between 1870, when the diamond rush to Kimberley began, and 1902, when the South African War ended. Midway between these dates, in 1886, the world's largest goldfields were discovered on the Witwatersrand. As the predominantly agrarian …
Sextortion in Africa manifests itself in various forms, from in exchange for grades for students in Nigeria, Botswana, and Tanzania, to sexual exploitation of women seeking employment in South Africa, in addition to in exchange for basic services following the cyclone Idai in Mozambique, or sexual exploitation of women …
Burgis argues that the exploitation of colonialism continued after independence in many African states, as new ruling elites used natural resources to enhance their wealth and power at the expense ...
Sibudu Cave is one of the few Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites in South Africa with good bone preservation. Analyses of the fauna show a variety of species …
