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    Palaeoenvironmental successions and sequence stratigraphy of the early to Middle Devonian Bokkeveld Group in the Clanwilliam Sub-basin, Western Cape Province, South Africa
    (2017) Penn-Clarke, Cameron Roy
    Reassessment of the sedimentology of the Bokkeveld Group in the Clanwilliam Sub-basin has allowed for the recognition of twelve lithofacies (1-12) comprising eight lthofacies association (A-H). Comparison of these lithofacies and lithofacies associations, as well as their palaeontological and ichnological content, with both ancient and modern analogues and applied experimental sedimentology suggests that sedimentation of the Bokkeveld Group in Clanwilliam Sub-basin occurred within three board siliciclastic depositional systems in a marginal-and-shallow marine setting. These are namely 1) A storm-and-wave-dominated shallow marine depositionl system comprising system offshore (Os) , offshore transition zone-to-distal Lower shoreface (OTZ-dLSF), proximal Lower shoreface (pLSF) and Upper shoreface-beach complex (USF-Beach) palaoenvironments. This is the most common depositional system in the field study area and persisted during sedimentationof the Gydo, Gamka, Voorstehoek, Hex River, Waboomberg, Wupperthal, Osberg and Karoopoort Formations. [Abbreviated Abstract. Open document to view full version]
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    Space, material culture and meaning in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene at Rose Cave Cottage
    (1995) Engela, Ronette
    This study, based on material excavated at Rose Cottage Cave, presents a new theoretical perspective for our understanding of the southern African archaeological record dated to the Pleistocenel Holocene boundary. Over the past twelve years, : NO contesting models for interpreting the Pleistocene! Holocene boundary have been proposed - it has been described as a period of cultural stasis, on the one hand, or, as exhibiting continuous change, on the other hand. This study departs from the position that this debate is at a theoretical impasse. Through the assumption of a theoretical framework that deals concurrently with cultural representation and social strategy, previously unrecognised aspects of the archaeological record are investigated. t explore the r-ctlve constitutive role of material culture and thus remove the false dichotomy between cultural form and functional expediency. In allowing for the active role of human agency, a model for the interpretation of spatial use is developer, through the incorporation of the informative and constraining role of previous spatial patternings. I recognise that meaning is actively created, and exarnple the spatially and chronolcqlcatlv contingent nature of meaning through the unique perspective that deep sequence archaeological deposit offers.