5.01 ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS FROM 1.8M TO 10000 YA

Data ID

Description:

Locations of archaeological sites with artefacts from 1.8m to 10000 ya

Chapter:

5 Land and History

File name:

Archaeological records from 1.8m to 10000 ya

File type:

Arcview shapefile

Geographical area:

Namibia

Keywords:

archaeology

human

Notes on data, analysis and

Compiled by John Kinahan from a variety of sources including:

compilation:

Kinahan, Jill. 2000. Cattle for beads: the archaeology of historical contact and trade on the Namib coast. Uppsala,

Studies in African Archaeology 17.

Kinahan, J. 1991b. Pastoral nomads of the Central Namib Desert: the people history forgot. Namibia Archaeological

Trust & New Namibia Books, Windhoek.

Richter, J. 1991. Studien zur Urgeschichte Namibias. Africa Praehistorica 3. Köln. Shackley, M. 1985. Palaeolithic

archaeology of the Central Namib Desert. Cimbebasia Memoir 6.

Volman, T.P. 1984. Early prehistory of southern Africa. In Klein, R.G. ed Southern African prehistory and

palaeoenvironments. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 169 - 395.

Wendt, W.E. 1972. Preliminary report on an archaeological research programme in South West Africa. Cimbebasia (B) 2: 1 - 61

Data quality and organisation

Positional Accuracy:

Mapped to quarter degree square level only

Vector/Raster:

Vector

Spatial reference

Projection:

Geographic

Fields

Field name

Field description

SQUARE

Quarter degree square

ID	Site ID number

PLEISTOLEN

Code: E (middle stone age: 75000 - 10000 years ago) or EP (early

stone age: 1.8 million - 75000 years ago)

PLACE

Name of site

X_COORD

Longitude co-ordinate

Y_COORD

Latitude co-ordinate

Source/Distribution

Data Source:

John Kinahan

Contact:

John Kinahan

Online/Offline Address:

Email: jkinahan@iafrica.com.na

Distribution notes:

Unrestricted