Sample name: Sehonghong (RBL/CLBRF)

Reference: I. Plug and P. Mitchell. 2008. Sehonghong: hunter-gatherer utilization of animal resources in the highlands of Lesotho. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 45:31-53 [ER 3742]

Lithology: ash

Taphonomic context: human accumulation, rock shelter

Archaeology: hearths, stone tools, other structures

Habitat comments: "The RBL/CLBRF (Red Brown Loam/Carbonaceous Loams Below Rock Fall) layers comprise brown, compost-like light loamy soils with high macroplant contents and ashy charcoal-rich loams. They contained several heavy red ochre-stained grindstones. Its lithic assemblage has been assigned to the Robberg Industry". Hearths are present throughout all of the Pleistocene layers, with one from Layers RBL/CLBRF having an "elaborate stone setting around it".
"While not all of the animal remains in the deposit would have been accumulated by people, the intense degree of fragmentation and burning that characterizes the Sehonghong assemblages strongly suggests that people were responsible for acquiring almost all of the faunal remains".

Life forms: carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other large mammals, other small mammals, birds, lizards, frogs, fishes, clams

Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash

Sample size: 438 specimens

Sampled by: P. Mitchell

Years: 1992

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "The primary excavation of the site was conducted by P. Mitchell in 1992. All sediment removed from the deposits was dry-sieved through a 1.5 mm mesh".

Sample no: 3985

Contributor no: Benjamin Carter

Enterer: Benjamin Carter

Created: 2022-08-25 16:07:26

Modified: 2023-05-30 01:41:08