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The Fifth International Workshop for African Archaeobotany will
be held 2-5 July, 2006
at the Institute of Archaeology,
University College London. For scheduled papers and absracts select days below.
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The Fifth International Workshop for African Archaeobotany will
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Monday, 3 July, 2006 Session: Gathered resources: foragers, wood fuels and the environmental impac
Subsistence strategies in the Early and Middle Holocene in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
The state of paleoethnobotany in South Africa
Alexander Antonites(1), Annemari Raath(2)
1 University of South Africa, South Africa 2 University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Archaeologists working in South Africa rarely incorporate paleoethnobotanical studies into their research proposals and designs. As a result, the potential contribution of paleoethnobotany to the understanding of prehistoric lifeways is not fully realized. Samples are often only collected as an afterthought; however, due to the small sample size and lack of context, even these results are rarely incorporated with those of other analyses. In this paper, we review the current state of paleoethnobotany in the region, and discuss potential avenues of future research. Here, emphasis falls on the contribution that paleoethnobotany can make to models concerned with the political economy and development of social complexity in South African prehistory.
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