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The Faraoskop Event: a significant moment in the history of foraging in the Western Cape, South Africa?

2023-08-23

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Here we make the case that the interment of twelve skeletons in a small Western Cape rock shelter should be viewed as a single event. We present evidence of the partially disarticulated, clearly overlapping arrangement of human remains and the radiocarbon dating results from the individuals that point to a hasty but coordinated burial at a critical moment in the prehistory of the Cape....

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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3269554/v1

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