Middle Stone Age Technologies in Mozambique: A Preliminary Study of the Niassa and Massingir Regions-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Middle Stone Age Technologies in Mozambique: A Preliminary Study of the Niassa and Massingir Regions

Published:2018-08-01 Issue:1 Volume:16 Page:60-82
ISSN:1612-1651
Container-title:Journal of African Archaeology
language:
Short-container-title:J. African Arch.

Author:

Bicho Nuno¹,Cascalheira João¹,Haws Jonathan²,Gonçalves Célia¹

Affiliation:

1. ICArEHB, FCHS, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas 8005-139 FaroPortugal

2. ICArEHB, FCHS, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas Department of Anthropology, University of Louisville 8005-139 FaroPortugal

Abstract

Abstract Southeast Africa has become an important region for understanding the development of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Anatomically Modern Humans. Due to its location between east and southern Africa, Mozambique is a key region for evaluating the development of Homo sapiens and the MSA across Africa. Here, we present the first results of lithic analyses of MSA assemblages collected during survey and testing in the Niassa and Massingir regions of Mozambique in 2014-2016. We were able to locate close to 200 new Stone Age surface sites. Data show that raw material use is different in the two areas. The lithic assemblages from both areas show the use of centripetal technology, but in Massingir, Levallois points, the respective cores and blade technology are frequent, they are almost absent in the northern region.

Publisher

Brill

Subject

Archaeology,History,Visual Arts and Performing Arts,Cultural Studies,Archaeology

Reference128 articles.

1. Diachronic change within the Still Bay at Blombos Cave, South Africa;Archer;PLoS One,2015

2. The faunal remains from the Middle Stone Age levels of Bushman Rock Shelter in South Africa;Badenhorst;South African Archaeological Bulletin,2012

3. The Red Sea, coastal landscapes, and hominin dispersals;Bailey,2010

4. Backed tools in Middle Pleistocene central Africa and their evolutionary significance;Barham;Journal of Human Evolution,2002

Cited by 5 articles. 订阅此论文施引文献订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献

1. Sitwe 23, a Complex ESA/MSA Locality in the Northern Luangwa Valley, Zambia;African Archaeological Review;2024-05-10

2. Chicumbane Connections: Lower Limpopo Valley During the First Millennium AD;African Archaeological Review;2023-11-30

3. Txina-Txina and the Later Stone Age of the Massingir Region, Mozambique;Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa;2023

4. The Zooarchaeology of Pleistocene Africa;Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa;2023

5. Revisiting Mwulu’s Cave: new insights into the Middle Stone Age in the southern African savanna biome;Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences;2018-11-23