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Title: | The Neolithic of Southern Africa |
Author: | Sadr, Karim |
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] |