The Robberg Industry of Rose Cottage Cave, Eastern Free State: The Technology, Spatial Patterns and Environment

Lyn Wadley

66 citations0/0 files storedThe South African Archaeological Bulletin

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Archaeology and Rock Art Studies

Abstract

Rose Cottage Cave contains a late expression of the Robberg Industry dating between about 13 300 and 12 000 BP. The assemblage is comparable to the Robberg at Sehonghong in Lesotho, but has more bladelets than any of the Cape assemblages. Spatial analyses of features, stone and other items in the three Robberg levels show that distinct activity clusters were present and that these are like the clusters found in the more recent Later Stone Age levels of the site. Environmental conditions seem to have been cooler and moister than those of today, and faunal analysis suggests that primary production was low and that most of the species present preferred grassland habitats.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 66 citations exist upstream.

References

1995Two Late Pleistocene-Holocene Archaeological Depositories from the Southern Cape, South Africa 1978Modern man in sub-Saharan Africa prior to 49 000 years B.P.: a review and evaluation with particular reference to border cave 1993The Pleistocene Later Stone Age south of the Limpopo River 1985The Later Stone Age of Southernmost Africa 1978Where Hunters Gathered: A Study of Holocene Stone Age People in the Eastern Cape 1990A 22 000 Year-Old Middle Stone Age Camp Site with Plant Food Remains from the North-Eastern Cape 1978Changing Patterns in the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Prehistory of Southern Africa as Seen from the Nelson Bay Cave Stone Artifact Sequence 1989Legacies from the Later Stone Age

Cited by

2014Quartz Knapping Strategies in the Howiesons Poort at Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)2012The effects of Class I and II sized bovids on macrofracture formation and tool displacement: Results of a trampling experiment in a southern African Stone Age context 2015Pleistocene Archaeology and Chronology of Putslaagte 8 (PL8) Rockshelter, Western Cape, South Africa 2015The Interpretation of Bipolar Knapping in African Stone Age Studies

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.