Nelson Bay Cave, Cape Province, South Africa: the Holocene levels
B.A.R. • Oxford, England : B.A.R., 1987 • Published In 1987 • Pages: 2 v. (xvii, 485 , 31 of plates)
By: Inskeep, Ray R., Avery, Graham, Klein, R. G., Morris, A.G., Poggenpoel, C. A., Vogel, J. C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Inskeep's 'report sets out the combined results of the four seasons of excavation in Nelson Bay Cave (NBC) … The site is a large cave on the south side of the Robberg peninsula …[Although] NBC was clearly considerable disturbed, the … site was chosen for investigation …' (page 1). The site has strata that date from the Middle Stone Age to the present. This report only discusses the remains dating from the middle to later Holocene. There is evidence that the cave was used year-round, but Inskeep also feels the cave might have been used by two groups of people - one from the interior who may have visited in the summer, and one group that lived year-round on the coast. The remains from the cave include stone and bone tools, shellfish, faunal remains, beads, some floral remains, containers of ostrich and turtle, pottery and metal objects (not indexed), and burials.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fauna
- Sociocultural trends
- Ornament
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- Lithic industries
- General tools
- Burial practices and funerals
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Wilton
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964-1966, 1970-1971, 1979
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- circa 6000 BP-circa 2000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nelson Bay Cave; Cape Province, South Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- R.R. Inskeep ; with contributions by G. Avery …[et al.]
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-485)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87180938
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- South Africa--Antiquities