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The chronology of the introduction of pastoralism to the Cape, South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

Judith Sealy  and
Royden Yates
Judith Sealy
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, Cape 7700, South Africa
Royden Yates
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, Cape 7700, South Africa
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Abstract

A careful survey of reports of early sheep in southernmost Africa combines with new radiocarbon dates to revise our knowledge of early pastoralism in the Cape. The new chronology shows the keeping of domestic stock and the making of pottery are not simultaneous and intertwined but separate events in a more complex history.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 258 , March 1994 , pp. 58 - 67
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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