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Title:Seasonality and Seal Exploitation in the Southwestern Cape, South Africa
Author:Marean, Curtis W.
Year:1986
Periodical:African Archaeological Review
Volume:4
Pages:135-149
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:seasonality
food
prehistory
Anthropology and Archaeology
External link:https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01117038
Abstract:An ecological model is proposed for human responses to climatic seasonality in the later Holocene of the southwestern Cape in South Africa. This is an area where pronounced seasonality produces cyclical effects on plant, animal and human communities. The predictions of this model are that human foragers would switch from plant carbohydrates to seal fat as a winter energy source: capture and butchery of seals would vary with season and seal age; capture and butchery of ungulates would vary seasonally; and seals would be exploited differently from ungulates throughout the year. The model is tested against faunal data from Smitswinkelbaai Cave. Bibliogr., sum. also in French.
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