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G. Haynes Images and Data from Africa (NOTE: New images and data added September, 2009) |
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NEW! (September 2009) Before Farming -- Ongoing Research in Northwestern Zimbabwe
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The Location of Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, southern Africa
**************************************************************************** Charcoal and Kalahari sand grains from the crest of Josivanini "dune 1000," from 1.5 m below the ground surface, dated 2,730 BP
*********************************************************************************** Backed and utilized microlithic tools (various raw materials) excavated in 2008 in Impala Rockshelter, Hwange National Park
******************************************************************************** Early Stone Age handaxes, cleavers, and cores from the Dete site in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe: Hyperlinks to Hwange handaxe data from several sites, including the Dete site, recorded by Janis Klimowicz (MsExcel© file of metrics and MsWord© file of metric codes)
***************************************************************** Elephant mandibles collected at the Sengwa Wildlife Research Institute, Zimbabwe: Hyperlink to tables for helping to determine proboscidean age, using mandibular tooth eruption/wear and scheduling of epiphyseal fusion (PDF file) ***************************************************************** An elephant trail in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe:
******************************************** Quartz sand grains and charcoal excavated 4 meters below the ground surface of a relict longitudinal dune in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe: Hyperlink to a graphic of OSL dates from a Hwange dune crest (JPG file)
***************************************************************** Bone fragments at a noncultural deathsite of a large mammal in Zimbabwe: Hyperlink to a file showing the minimum numbers of individual animals whose deaths were recorded at four seepage springs in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe (MHT file)
****************************************************************** Sketches of MSA and LSA tools from Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe: Hyperlink to tables showing extent of archeological surveying carried out in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe (PDF file) Hyperlink to a list of archeological sites found in Hwange National Park (PDF file)
*********************************************** Map of six clustered rockshelters on Bumbusi ridge, Hwange National Park. Two of the rockshelters were tested or partly excavated in 2007 and 2008. All contain rock art, mostly animal-spoor engravings. A sample of the tens of thousands of Wilton lithics from controlled excavations is being analyzed, along with a sample of the thousands of faunal and macrobotanical materials.
*********************************************** A buried slab of sandstone in one of the Bumbusi ridge rockshelters. There are identifiable engravings of spoor on it (impala and warthog). Organics in the sediments above and below the slab are to be dated, to determine when the slab fell from the rockshelter wall.
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