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Moshebi's shelter at fifty: Reinvestigating the Later Stone Age of the Sehlabathebe Basin, Lesotho
- Abstract:
- Professional archaeology in Lesotho was initiated 50 years ago when Pat Carter, working with Patricia Vinnicombe, excavated the site of Moshebi's Shelter in the Sehlabathebe Basin. His excavations there identified a sequence of both Middle and Later Stone Age (LSA) industries, the latter falling within the last 2200 years. However, the site was never fully published and Carter's use of 10-cm-thick spits to excavate its deposits raises questions about the precise stratigraphic provenance of the finds made. As part of renewed investigations into hunter-gatherer/farmer interactions in highland Lesotho, Moshebi's LSA deposits were re-excavated in 2009. This paper summarizes the results of the archaeological sequence recovered, their dating using both radiocarbon and OSL techniques, and their implications for past human use of the site and the wider Maloti-Drakensberg landscape.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.04.040
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- Quaternary International More from this journal
- Volume:
- 611-612
- Pages:
- 163-176
- Publication date:
- 2020-05-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-04-25
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1040-6182
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English
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1125371
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pubs:1125371
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2020-09-23
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- 2020
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Elsevier at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.04.040
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