Current themes in Middle Stone Age research
By: edited by Marlize Lombard, Christine Sievers and Valerie Ward in honour of Lyn Wadley.
Contributors: Lombard, Marlize.; Sievers, Christine.; Ward, Valerie.; Wadley, Lyn.; South African Archaeological Society.; Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists.
Series: Goodwin series / South African Archaeological Society -- v. 10 (December 2008); Goodwin series -- v. 9.
Publisher: South African Archaeological Society in association with ASAPA
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Vlaeberg, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Mesolithic period -- Africa, Southern; Mesolithic period -- South Africa; Stone age -- Africa, Southern; Stone age -- South Africa; South Africa -- Antiquities; Africa, Southern -- Antiquities
Notes: Title from cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / C. Sievers; title: Modelling the MSA : a tribute to Lyn Wadley / J. Deacon; title: Testing times : old and new chronologies for the Howieson's Poort and Still Bay Industries in environmental context / Z. Jacobs and R.G. Roberts; title: Winds of change : palaeoenvironments, material culture and human behaviour in the Late Pleistocene (~77 ka-48 ka ago) in the Western Cape Province, South Africa / C.S. Henshilwood; title: Developing the archaeology of marine isotope stage 3 / R. Mitchell; title: The Ysterfontein 1 Middle Stone Age rock shelter and the evolution of coastal foraging / G. Avery, D. Halkett, J. Orton, T. Steele, M. Tusenius and R. Klein; title: The Mossel Bay lithic variant : 120 years of Middle Stone Age research from Cape St Blaize Cave to Pinnacle Point / E. Thompson and C.W. Marean; title: Preliminary characterization of a Middle Stone Age lithic assemblage preceding the 'classic' Howieson's Poort complex at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape Province, South Africa / G. Porraz, P-J. Texier, J-P. Rigaud, J. Parkington, C. Poggenpoel and D.L. Roberts; title: The Howieson's Poort Industry of Sibudu Cave / L. Wadley; title: In the air : a preliminary report of the birds from Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / I. Plug and J.L. Clark; title: The context of the 1967-8 sample of human remains from Cave 1 Klasies River main site / H.J. Deacon; title: Modern behaviour at Klasies River / S. Wurz; title: The transition from Howieson's Poort to post-Howieson's Poort Industries in southern Africa / G.W.G. Cochrane; title: Le rouge et le noir : implications of early pigment use in Africa, the Near East and Europe for the origin of cultural modernity / F. d'Errico; title: A critical view of the evidence for a southern African origin of behavioural modernity / N.J. Conard; title: From testing times to high resolution : the late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age of South Africa and beyond / M. Lombard.