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Title:The Neolithic of Southern Africa
Author:Sadr, KarimISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:The Journal of African History
Volume:44
Issue:2
Period:July
Pages:195-209
Language:English
Geographic term:Southern Africa
Subjects:Stone Age
prehistory
Anthropology and Archaeology
History and Exploration
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4100863
Abstract:As the exception on the continent, southern Africa has no Neolithic period. In the 1920s, when the term came to mean Stone Age with food production, Neolithic was dropped in South Africa for lack of evidence for farming or herding in Stone Age sites. But since the late 1960s many sheep bones have surfaced in just such sites. Now, the continued absence of a Neolithic may say more about the politics of South African archaeology than about its prehistory. This paper describes food production in the southern African late Stone Age and argues in favour of (re-)introducing the term Neolithic to the subcontinent. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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