Ceramics are an essential part of the Holocene archaeology of eastern Africa and the development of increasingly complex typologies has rightly played a key role in our understanding of chronology and social identity. ...

Animals are often attracted to the cultivated gardens of farmers, whowould hunt these pests to protect their crops from damage. This is known as garden hunting. Since the concept of garden hunting was first described more ...

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 1st millennium a.d., farmer groups ...