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A Milk and Ochre Paint Mixture Used 49,000 Years Ago at Sibudu, South Africa

scientific article published on 30 June 2015

A history in paint and stone from Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa

A late Middle Stone Age artifact assemblage from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal): comparisons with the European Middle Paleolithic

scientific article published in March 2005

A vegetation record based on charcoal analysis from Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, ∼227 000 to ∼44 000 years ago

scientific article published in 2022

Ages for the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa: implications for human behavior and dispersal

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Announcing a Still Bay industry at Sibudu Cave, South Africa

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Another Dating Revolution for Prehistoric Archaeology?

scientific article published on 22 December 2011

Bedding, hearths, and site maintenance in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

scientific article published on 13 May 2009

Blade technology and tool forms in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa: the Howiesons Poort and post-Howiesons Poort at Rose Cottage Cave

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Cemented ash as a receptacle or work surface for ochre powder production at Sibudu, South Africa, 58,000 years ago

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Changes in the Social Relations of Precolonial Hunter–Gatherers after Agropastoralist Contact: An Example from the Magaliesberg, South Africa

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Compound‐Adhesive Manufacture as a Behavioral Proxy for Complex Cognition in the Middle Stone Age

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Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Direct evidence for human exploitation of birds in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa: The example of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal

scientific article published on 11 September 2016

Experimental heat treatment of silcrete implies analogical reasoning in the Middle Stone Age.

scientific article published on 5 April 2014

Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

From the Cover: Implications for complex cognition from the hafting of tools with compound adhesives in the Middle Stone Age, South Africa

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Gender Relations in the Thukela Basin

scientific article published in December 1989

Going underground: experimental carbonization of fruiting structures under hearths

scientific article published in November 2008

How people used ochre at Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa: Sixty thousand years of evidence from the Middle Stone Age.

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Howiesons Poort backed artifacts provide evidence for social connectivity across southern Africa during the Final Pleistocene

scientific article published on 01 January 2022

Human deciduous teeth from the Middle Stone Age layers of Sibudu Cave (South Africa)

scientific article published on 20 August 2018

Humans at the End of the Ice Age: The Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition

scientific article published in December 1997

Identifying regional variability in Middle Stone Age bone technology: The case of Sibudu Cave

In memoriam – Hilary John Deacon (1936–2010)

scientific article published in December 2010

Infrared reflectance spectroscopy as an analytical technique for the study of residues on stone tools: potential and challenges

Middle Stone Age Bedding Construction and Settlement Patterns at Sibudu, South Africa

scientific article published on December 9, 2011

Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa

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Middle Stone Age wood use in Rose Cottage Cave South Africa: Evidence from charcoal identifications

Multiproxy record of late Quaternary climate change and Middle Stone Age human occupation at Wonderkrater, South Africa

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New Excavations at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

article by Lucinda R. Backwell et al published 18 August 2018 in Journal of Field Archaeology

New ages for the post-Howiesons Poort, late and final Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa

Ochre for the toolmaker: shaping the Still Bay points at Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

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Ochre in hafting in Middle Stone Age southern Africa: a practical role

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Our Gendered Past: Archaeological Studies of Gender in Southern Africa

scientific article published in June 1999

Past Environmental Proxies from the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

scientific article published in November 2014

Plants, people and fire: Phytolith and FTIR analyses of the post-Howiesons Poort occupations at Border Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

scientific article published in 2023

Possible shell beads from the Middle Stone Age layers of Sibudu Cave, South Africa

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Potential for identifying plant-based toxins on San hunter-gatherer arrowheads

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Putting ochre to the test: replication studies of adhesives that may have been used for hafting tools in the Middle Stone Age.

scientific article published on 26 August 2005

Quartz knapping strategies in the Howiesons Poort at Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa).

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Recognizing Complex Cognition through Innovative Technology in Stone Age and Palaeolithic Sites

scientific article published in June 2013

Reply to Barham: Aggregation and Dispersal Phase Sites in the Later Stone Age

scientific article published in June 1992

Responses of South African Agate and Chalcedony When Heated Experimentally, and the Broader Implications for Heated Archaeological Minerals

Rose Cottage Cave Revisited: Malan's Middle Stone Age Collection

scientific article published in June 1989

Rose Cottage Cave: Background and a Preliminary Report on the Recent Excavations

scientific article published in December 1991

Rose Cottage Cave: The Later Stone Age Levels with European and Iron Age Artefacts

scientific article published in June 1992

Segments of Time: A Mid-Holocene Wilton Site in the Transvaal

scientific article published in December 1986

Sehonghong. The Middle and Later Stone Age Sequence at a Lesotho Rock Shelter

scientific article published in June 1989

Small things in perspective: the contribution of our blind tests to micro-residue studies on archaeological stone tools

scholarly article by Lyn Wadley published in June 2007

Stable isotope evidence for (mostly) stable local environments during the South African Middle Stone Age from Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal

scientific article published in December 2018

Still Bay and serrated points from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

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Technological variability at Sibudu Cave: The end of Howiesons Poort and reduced mobility strategies after 62,000 years ago

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Temporal perspectives on Still Bay point production at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, in the context of southern Africa

journal article from 'Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa' published in 2019

The Archaeology of Childhood. Children, Gender, and Material Culture

The Cambridge History of Africa. Vol. 1: From the Earliest Times to C. 500 B.C.

The Early Holocene Layers of Rose Cottage Cave, Eastern Free State: Technology, Spatial Patterns and Environment

scientific article published in June 2000

The Pleistocene Later Stone Age south of the Limpopo River

The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan

scientific article published in June 1983

The Robberg Industry of Rose Cottage Cave, Eastern Free State: The Technology, Spatial Patterns and Environment

scientific article published in December 1996

The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Stone Age Technologies

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The Wilton and Pre-Ceramic Post-Classic Wilton Industries at Rose Cottage Cave and Their Context in the South African Sequence

scientific article published in December 2000

The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave

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The final MSA of eastern South Africa: a comparative study between Umbeli Belli and Sibhudu

scientific article published on 3 April 2022

The first residue analysis blind tests: results and lessons learnt

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The morphological identification of micro-residues on stone tools using light microscopy: progress and difficulties based on blind tests

Traditional Glue, Adhesive and Poison Used for Composite Weapons by Ju/'hoan San in Nyae Nyae, Namibia. Implications for the Evolution of Hunting Equipment in Prehistory

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Were snares and traps used in the Middle Stone Age and does it matter? A review and a case study from Sibudu, South Africa

scientific article published on 23 December 2009

What is Cultural Modernity? A General View and a South African Perspective from Rose Cottage Cave

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