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The foodplant fitness landscape of Hollow Rock Shelter, Western Cape,South Africa
University of Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0675-0414
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences. University of Johannesburg, South Africa. (Arkeologi)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8747-4131
2023 (English)In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, ISSN 2352-409X, E-ISSN 2352-4103, Vol. 49, article id 103997Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Studying Stone Age foraging behaviours in terms of plant foods is difficult because of reservation, sampling and identification biases. Current foodplant populations, knowledge about their use in recent times, and how they are distributed across the landscape, provide valuable middle-range proxies from which work on archaeological landscapes and material can benefit. With this contribution we provide foodplant lists for three different foraging ranges (radii of ∼ 12.5 km, ∼35 km, and ∼ 70 km) around Hollow Rock Shelter. By comparing data for each of the foraging ranges directly, we discuss proportional increases in foodplant resources when moving further away from the site. We demonstrate that the ∼ 35 km foraging range is the most efficient. This implies that people staying at the site (for shorter or longer periods) may have regularly employed a strategy of temporary camping for a night or two away from the site to forage especially preservable foods that could be brought to the site. Our data highlight potential plant-food staples, and show that under-surface storage organs (USOs) of plants, followed by fruit and leaves are the most abundant edible plant parts available on the Hollow Rock Shelter landscape within all three of the foraging ranges, and that most of these could be eaten raw.

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Elsevier, 2023. Vol. 49, article id 103997
Keywords [en]
Cederberg Stone Age landscape, subsistence behaviour, foraging range, edible plant parts, USOs, cooking
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Archaeology
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Humanities, Archaeology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-120197DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103997ISI: 001042364300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85152124103OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-120197DiVA, id: diva2:1750214
Available from: 2023-04-12 Created: 2023-04-12 Last updated: 2023-08-17Bibliographically approved

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