Thesis (M.S.) in Earth Sciences--University of Maine, 2006. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-111).

M.A. (Anthropology) / Stone circle open-air settlements occur in Namibia and South Africa. Stone circles were occupied during the past 2000 years. It is during this time that livestock and pottery reached southern Africa via a process of either migration/diffusion or both. In southern Africa people have different subsistence strategies such as hunting, gathering and/or herding. In an anthropological context it is sometimes possible to differentiate between people based on linguistics, settlement layouts and ideology. Prior to the introduction of domestic goats/sheep and pottery, people with hunter-gatherer practices inhabited southern Africa. However, to differentiate between the „original‟ hunter-gatherer population, immigrant herders and hunter-gatherers that accepted livestock based on the archaeological record remains challenging. It has been proposed that hunter-gatherers abandoned rock shelters after acquiring caprines and built stone circle settlements to have more space for their flocks. Kuidas Spring is an archaeological site with rock shelters, stone circles, cairns and rock art. I excavated one rock shelter, a stone circle and a cairn, all features date within the last 2000 years. I conducted a typological and technological analyses of the lithics and ostrich eggshell beads. Based on the outcome there seems to be no differences between artefact assemblages. In addition no remains of caprines or cattle were found. The current evidence from Kuidas Spring suggest that it was a seasonal encampment that could have been utilised by both hunter-gatherers and herders, the latter probably reached Namibia through a process of migration and diffusion.

"This thesis discusses the archaeological literature concerning karst features: what information is available, the sites previously studied, the people who researched karst sites, and historic and prehistoric remains recovered from karst features. It describes specific sites, settlement studies related to karst features, and environmental reconstruction. As background, this thesis also describes geological and hydrological information concerning karst features, such as their sediment history, causes, and formation processes. It then presents geological information specific to one karst feature called Promise Sink. It also suggests a possible method to date sinkhole formation through pollen and floral analysis. Another facet of this thesis presents the results of a preliminary survey of a karst feature called Promise Sink. Through survey and excavation, the archaeological potential of Promis Sink is evaluated. A mapping gram provides documentation of Promise Sink on many levels: the surrounding area, surface features, physiology, and depth profile. An underwater survey of the sink also included subsurface testing which produced evidence of a prehistoric cultural component"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "Summer Semester, 1993." / "Submitted to the Department of Anthropology in Partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Rochelle Marrinan, Professor Directing Thesis. / Vita. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-130).

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2003. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-299).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 235-285).

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This dissertation is concerned with the analysis of selected blade assemblages from Late Devensian and Early Flandrian contexts in Southern Britain (c. 12,500 - 9,000 BP). The British sites studied are divided into three main groupings: Upper Palaeolithic, Long Blade, and Mesolithic, each of which contains material of a typologically and technologically distinct nature. Despite previous important studies in the British Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, no major work until now has been undertaken on the third technology, that of the Long Blade sites, which seems to occupy a chronological position intermediate between the other two. The dissertation incorporates the first comprehensive description of material from Long Blade sites and contrasts it with the sets of artefacts from the other two groups. Comparative data from the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic derive mainly from primary information recovered in two excavations directed by myself at Hengistbury Head between 1980-4. The chapters consider the archaeological material in chronological order beginning in Chapter 1 with the Late Upper Palaeolithic assemblage from Hengistbury Head. Chapters 2 and 3 are devoted to the Long Blade assemblages from Britain and Northwestern Europe, whilst in the fourth chapter the Early Mesolithic material from Hengistbury and related sites in Southern Britain is considered. The fifth and last chapter is given over to discussion and final conclusions. Appended to the last chapter is a gazetteer of 159 specified Long Blade findspots in Southern Britain, the first time this material has ever been gathered together. Explanatory notes and a key are provided at the front of the Gazetteer. In studying the artefacts I have laid particular emphasis on technology as well as typology, and in studying technology I have been particularly influenced by my own work on the experimental manufacture and use of implements. Given that my two excavated sites were very little disturbed, I have also been able to make major use of conjoining artefacts, not only as an aid to understanding the differing techniques of artefact manufacture, but also in interpreting the archaeology of the sites. Some use was also made of experimental taphonomy. These aspects of my work are referred to in the text, notably in Chapters 1 and 4.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Sydney, 2009. / Title from title screen (viewed October 26, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy to the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, Dept. of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts. Includes bliographical references. Also available in print form.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at Arlington, 2009.