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  • Lacustrine geoarchaeology in the central Kalahari: Implications for Middle Stone Age behaviour and adaptation in dryland conditions 
    Thomas, David S.G.; Burrough, Sallie L.; Coulson, Sheila Dawn; Mothulatshipi, Sarah; Nash, David J.; Staurset, Sigrid (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    The Middle Stone Age (MSA) was a time of great human adaptation and innovation. In southern Africa, coastal locations have been viewed as key places for the development of human resource use and behaviour, with the dryness ...
  • Lessons from a lakebed: unpicking hydrological change and early human landscape use in the Makgadikgadi basin, Botswana 
    Coulson, Sheila; Staurset, Sigrid; Burrough, Sallie L.; Thomas, David S.G.; Allin, Joshua R.; Mothulatshipi, Sarah M.; Nash, David J. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    The intersection of archaeological material with the landscape is investigated using OSL dating of landforms associated with Middle Stone Age (MSA) archaeology in the Makgadikgadi basin, Botswana. In this study, MSA ...
  • Making points: the Middle Stone Age lithic industry of the Makgadikgadi Basin, Botswana. 
    Staurset, Sigrid; Coulson, Sheila; Mothulatshipi, Sarah; Sallie L., Burrough; Nash, David J.; Thomas, David S.G. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Studies of early human occupation of Africa over recent decades have profoundly changed how we understand our early ancestors, their inventiveness and adaptability. The spread of Homo sapiens to new environmental settings, ...
  • Thriving in the Thirstland: New Stone Age sites from the Middle Kalahari, Botswana 
    Coulson, Sheila; Staurset, Sigrid; Mothulatshipi, Sarah; Burrough, Sallie L.; Nash, David J.; Thomas, David S.G. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    This paper documents the abundance of Stone Age finds in the Middle Kalahari, both through earlier publications and newly documented sites. Results of several decades of Stone Age research are presented through a variety ...