Approaches to Middle Stone Age landscape archaeology in tropical Africa

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• 作者：David K. Wright^a ; ^b ; ^{msafiri@snu.ac.kr} ; Jessica C. Thompson^c ; ^{jessica.thompson@emory.edu} ; Flora Schilt^d ; ^{fcschilt@gmail.com} ; Andrew S. Cohen^e ; ^{cohen@email.arizona.edu} ; Jeong-Heon Choi^f ; ^{jhchoi@kbsi.re.kr} ; Julio Mercader^g ; ^{mercader@ucalgary.ca} ; Sheila Nightingale^h ; ^{snightingale@gradcenter.cuny.edu} ; Christopher E. Millerⁱ ; ^{christopher.miller@uni-tuebingen.de} ; Susan M. Mentzer^d ; ^j ; ^{susan.mentzer@ifu.uni-tuebingen.de} ; Dale Walde^g ; ^{walde@ucalgary.ca} ; Menno Welling^k ; ^{welling@africanheritage.mw} ; Elizabeth Gomani-Chindebvu^l ; ^{egomanichindebvu@yahoo.com}
• 关键词：Middle Stone Age ; Tropical African paleoenvironments ; Micromorphology ; Optically Stimulated Luminescence ; Phytolith analysis ; Site formation processes ; Alluvial fans
• 刊名：Journal of Archaeological Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：77
• 期：Complete
• 页码：64-77
• 全文大小：5293 K
• 卷排序：77

文摘

Interpreting MSA sequences from open-air sites is challenging in tropical environments. We advocate using sedimentology, micromorphology, OSL and phytolith analyses to analyze site taphonomy. Lake proxy data, phytoliths and micromorphology show variable mildly xeric to pluvial ecosystems. Chaminade-II has MSA activity from >47 to >17ka on a slowly aggraded, partially eroded alluvial fan. Post-depositional effects must be considered to accurately reconstruct site histories.