DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.014
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85050503362
论文题名: Late Quaternary palaeoclimates and human-environment dynamics of the Maloti-Drakensberg region, southern Africa
作者: Stewart B.A. ; Mitchell P.J.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2018
卷: 196 起始页码: 1
结束页码: 20
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Archaeology
; Glacial geomorphology
; Human-environment dynamics
; Later Stone Age
; Maloti-Drakensberg
; Middle Stone Age
; Palaeoclimatology
; Quaternary
; Southern Africa
; Stable isotopes
Scopus关键词: Geology
; Natural sciences
; Archaeology
; Glacial geomorphology
; Human-environment dynamics
; Maloti-Drakensberg
; Palaeoclimatology
; Quaternary
; Southern Africa
; Stable isotopes
; Stone age
; Dynamics
; archaeology
; calibration
; climate variation
; glacial landform
; mountain region
; nature-society relations
; paleoclimate
; Quaternary
; radiocarbon dating
; refugium
; stable isotope
; Stone Age
; topography
; Drakensberg
英文摘要: The Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains are southern Africa's highest and lie at a crucial interface between the sub-continent's drier, colder, more seasonal interior and its perennially productive sub-tropical coastal belt. Their location, high elevation, and topography make them ideal for exploring human responses to late Quaternary climatic change. This paper reviews and synthesizes palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental data from the Maloti-Drakensberg region over the past 50,000 years. It then employs 325 calibrated radiocarbon dates to examine human occupational trends across the region and its component parts, discuss human-environment dynamics over this time-span, and explore patterning between particular phases of climatic change and the timing, mode, and motives of its exploitation by people. Key findings are that the region's Lesotho core may have served as a refugium for human populations during drier, more unstable climatic periods and that intensified exploitation of freshwater fish likely helped address resource stress in cooler ones. An agenda for future palaeoenvironmental and archaeological research is also mapped out. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/112087
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作者单位: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology and Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079, United States; Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, PO Wits 2050, South Africa; School of Archaeology, University of Oxford/St Hugh's College, Oxford, OX2 6LE, United Kingdom; School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, PO Wits 2050, South Africa
Recommended Citation:
Stewart B.A.,Mitchell P.J.. Late Quaternary palaeoclimates and human-environment dynamics of the Maloti-Drakensberg region, southern Africa[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2018-01-01,196