Shellfishing and the Interpretation of Shellfish Sizes in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of South Africa

New book chapter out by Judith Sealy and Mariagrazia Galimberti.



Abstract can be found here:
SpringerLink - Abstract

Abstract:
South Africa has a long history of coastal occupation, with numerous sites dating from the Holocene and a sizable number from the Late Pleistocene. Research in progress is now revealing evidence of coastal occupation, and the accumulation of shell middens, as far back as the Middle Pleistocene (Jacobs et al. 2006; Marean et al. 2007). These sites preserve some of the earliest evidence, anywhere in the world, of the behaviour of modern humans, making South Africa an especially fruitful area in which to explore questions about the use of coastal resources and how these changed both through time and across space.

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