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The Wilton tradition was located in the Cape region of South Africa from 10,000 to 4,000 BP. The people were nomadic hunter-gatherers living in small, egalitarian bands. Sites are located along the coast and inland from the Cape north to Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. The dry conditions found at some of the sites have preserved some artifacts of leather and cordage. The people living along the coast relied on marine resources to some extent.

Where hunters gathered

Later stone age people and their descendants in southern Africa

Nelson Bay Cave, Cape Province, South Africa

Holocene Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers south of the Limpopo River, ca. 10,000-2000 B.P.

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Late Pleistocene and Holocene hunter-gatherers of the Matopos

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Deacon, H. J.	Where hunters gathered	1976
Deacon, Janette	Later stone age people and their descendants in southern Africa	1984
Inskeep, Ray R.	Nelson Bay Cave, Cape Province, South Africa	1987
Mitchell, Peter	Holocene Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers south of the Limpopo River, ca. 10,000-2000 B.P.	1997
Wadley, Lyn	Tradition summary	2004
Walker, Nicholas John	Late Pleistocene and Holocene hunter-gatherers of the Matopos	1995