A GIS Analysis of the Zeekoe Valley Stone Age Archaeological Record in South Africa

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" A GIS Analysis of the Zeekoe Valley Stone Age Archaeological Record in South Africa "
C. Garth Sampson, Virginia Moore, C. Britt Bousman, et al.

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1069908
Doc. No	:	LA113537
Call No	:	‭10.3213/2191-5784-10277‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Alberto Giordano
	:	Bob Stafford
	:	C. Britt Bousman
	:	C. Garth Sampson
	:	Mark Willis
	:	Virginia Moore
Title & Author	:	A GIS Analysis of the Zeekoe Valley Stone Age Archaeological Record in South Africa [Article]\ C. Garth Sampson, Virginia Moore, C. Britt Bousman, et al.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of African Archaeology
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/2
Page No	:	167–185
Abstract	:	The conversion of the Zeekoe Valley Archaeological Project survey data to a GIS format allows rapid and accurate analysis of this large hunter-gatherer database. During the 16-month survey 13,866 prehistoric Stone Age sites were recorded and plotted on aerial photographs. These site locations and archaeological data can now be analysed in a manner never possible before the conversion. The distribution and abundance of sites spanning over ~700,000 years of occupation demonstrates how human hunting and gathering societies organized themselves spatially on an African landscape. These results show how these different groups positioned themselves in different locations especially in relation to water sources in the semi-desert Karoo. These distributions show flexible patterns of spatial organization through the prehistoric past. The conversion of the Zeekoe Valley Archaeological Project survey data to a GIS format allows rapid and accurate analysis of this large hunter-gatherer database. During the 16-month survey 13,866 prehistoric Stone Age sites were recorded and plotted on aerial photographs. These site locations and archaeological data can now be analysed in a manner never possible before the conversion. The distribution and abundance of sites spanning over ~700,000 years of occupation demonstrates how human hunting and gathering societies organized themselves spatially on an African landscape. These results show how these different groups positioned themselves in different locations especially in relation to water sources in the semi-desert Karoo. These distributions show flexible patterns of spatial organization through the prehistoric past.
Descriptor	:	Acheulian
Descriptor	:	GIS
Descriptor	:	herders
Descriptor	:	Karoo
Descriptor	:	LSA
Descriptor	:	MSA
Descriptor	:	Seekoei River
Descriptor	:	settlement patterns
Descriptor	:	spatial organization
Descriptor	:	Stone Age
Location & Call number	:	‭10.3213/2191-5784-10277‬