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A revised chronology for pastoralism in southernmost Africa: new evidence of sheep at c. 2000 b.p. from Blombos Cave, South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Christopher Henshilwood
Christopher Henshilwood*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, Cape 7700, South Africa. E-mail: csh@beattie.uct.ac.za
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New excavation at Blombos Cave, in the southern Cape of South Africa, and new radiocarbon dates for its sequence further illuminate the chronology of pastoralism in southern Africa, and the relations between pottery-using and shepherding.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 270 , December 1996 , pp. 945 - 949
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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