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Title: | Test excavation at Lepokole Cave, eastern Botswana |
Author: | Walker, Nic |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | Botswana Notes and Records (ISSN 0525-5090) |
Volume: | 41 |
Pages: | 17-24 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs., ills. |
Geographic terms: | Botswana Southern Africa |
Subjects: | archaeology Stone Age rock art History, Archaeology Botswana--Antiquities Excavations (Archaeology) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/23237921 |
Abstract: | This paper describes a test excavation at Lepokole Cave (Botswana), a site better known for its rock art. These paintings are probably early 1st millennium AD in age, on the basis of a charcoal date associated with Late Stone Age, hunter-gatherer lithics. The presence of ceramics suggests some interaction with farmers over the centuries, but many pots were almost certainly left by farmers themselves who came here to pray, a practice that continues today on the basis of offerings left in the cave. Almost certainly, some of these farmers also chipped off paint for magical use, as can be seen by the pecked paintings. the rock shelter was also a major camp site for Middle Stone Age hunters during the Upper Pleistocene. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |