Social landscapes of Euphorbia Kop: a K2 farmer settlement with a forager presence in Southern Africa

Forssman, T, Seiler, T, Rossouw, A and Ashley, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1243-3183, 2022. Social landscapes of Euphorbia Kop: a K2 farmer settlement with a forager presence in Southern Africa. Journal of Field Archaeology, 47 (6), pp. 421-434. ISSN 0093-4690

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Abstract

Holocene foragers in southern Africa were mobile, stone-tool-using, hunting and gathering communities that lived in rock shelters and in the open in temporary campsites. From the early first millennium AD, farmer groups migrated into southern Africa and introduced domesticated crops, livestock, and metal technology into the region, and lived in fixed homesteads. Differences in the material culture and residential habits of these two communities is distinct and largely differentiable. As such, studying their interactions is possible through the analysis of material culture and its context. Here we present the findings from Euphorbia Kop in the middle Limpopo Valley of central southern Africa that contains several strands of evidence indicating a forager presence within a farmer settlement identified by several distinct cultural markers. Our findings demonstrate a response to contact not well recorded in the region that offers a possible explanation for the decline and eventual disappearance of forager remains in rock-shelter contexts beginning in the early second millennium AD.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Field Archaeology
Creators:	Forssman, T., Seiler, T., Rossouw, A. and Ashley, C.
Publisher:	Informa UK Limited
Date:	18 August 2022
Volume:	47
Number:	6
ISSN:	0093-4690
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/00934690.2022.2078042 DOI 1730668 Other
Rights:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Field Archaeology on 26 May 2022, available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00934690.2022.2078042
Divisions:	Schools > School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	06 Mar 2023 09:16
Last Modified:	26 Nov 2023 03:00
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/48456

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