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The Society of Spanish Researchers in South Africa (ACE South Africa) invites you to participate in our third 2020 Webinar

"Coastal occupation and foraging during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene at Waterfall Bluff, eastern Pondoland, South Africa"

Speaker: Dr Irene ESTEBAN, Postdoctoral fellow in Archaeobotany,
Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand &
African Centre for Coastal Palaeosciences, Nelson Mandela University

Date: Wednesday, 12 August 2020

Time: 17h00 - 18h00 (GMT+2, JHB CPT MAD BCN time)

Platform: Zoom us02web.zoom.us/j/83265982613
Webinar ID: 832 6598 2613

For more information, please find attached the invitation and the webinar abstract below. Please feel free to distribute this information amongst your colleagues.

We look forward to welcoming you and collaborators in such a remarkable event.

Abstract: The Late Pleistocene is notable for climatic and environmental changes as long-standing glacial patterns transformed into the contemporary interglacial Holocene. In South Africa, the climatic changes across this glacial/interglacial transition had major impacts on continental paleoenvironments with localized changes to plant, animal, and freshwater sources that hunter-gatherers relied on for survival. Coastal zones, having both diverse and predictable foods, may have uniquely influenced hunter-gatherer risk responses during periods of climatic and environmental change. These places may have been sought out by hunter-gatherers for their resource stability that provided a buffer against the effects of climate and environmental change. Unfortunately, few records of coastal occupation in South Africa contain evidence dating to glacial periods. However, new excavations by the P5 Project at the site of Waterfall Bluff (A2SE-1) in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province have revealed stratified and well-preserved remains of coastal hunter-gatherer occupations dating to the Late Pleistocene and start of the Holocene, with key deposits spanning the Last Glacial Maximum. Here, I describe recent archaeological, sedimentological, paleoenvironmental, and geochronological research at the site and summarize upcoming research activities. Our multiproxy paleoenvironmental results show major climate and vegetation changes between the Holocene and the Late Pleistocene. The archaeological records also provide new insights into the coastal adaptations of hunter-gatherers during the glacial maxima and across the glacial/interglacial transition, providing a unique opportunity to study coastal hunter-gatherer behavioral adaptations across a glacial / interglacial transition.

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Dr Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz
President of the Society of Spanish Researchers in South Africa (ACE Sudáfrica)
&
Erasmus+ A4U Facilitator in South Africa, EU
&
Chair of the departmental Internationalisation Committee
Senior Lecturer
UCT Cosmology and Gravity Group (SKA Cosmo and GW),
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Department
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch
South Africa
E-mail: alvaro.delacruzdombriz@uct.ac.za
Tel: +27 21 650 4065
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