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کتابخانه
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Number
LA113588
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انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Past Climatic Conditions for Bokoni at Buffelskloof, Mpumalanga, Using δ13C Analysis of Prunus africana and Pittosporum viridiflorum Tree Rings
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[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Maria H. Schoeman, Byron Aub, John Burrows, et al.
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Leiden
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Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Terrace farming flourished in Bokoni from the sixteenth century CE onwards. Bokoni farmers' resilience strategies, however, were severely tested during the third occupation phase (approx. 1780 to 1840 CE), when the mfecane destabilised the region. In order to reflect on the environmental conditions Bokoni farmers faced in this period the stable carbon isotope proxy rainfall records from Prunus africana and Pittosporum viridiflorum specimens that grew on the Buffelskloof site were studied. Because the Buffelskloof records postdate the occupation, the records are compared with a 1000-year Adansonia digitata rainfall proxy record from the Pafuri region. Deviations between the two are attributed to the juvenile effect, and when these are discounted there is a significant correlation between local and regional rainfall records. This suggests common large-scale synoptic forcing underlies regional rainfall variability, and the decadal-scale variability in the Adansonia digitata records indicates extremely dry conditions in the 1780 to 1840 CE period. Terrace farming flourished in Bokoni from the sixteenth century CE onwards. Bokoni farmers' resilience strategies, however, were severely tested during the third occupation phase (approx. 1780 to 1840 CE), when the mfecane destabilised the region. In order to reflect on the environmental conditions Bokoni farmers faced in this period the stable carbon isotope proxy rainfall records from Prunus africana and Pittosporum viridiflorum specimens that grew on the Buffelskloof site were studied. Because the Buffelskloof records postdate the occupation, the records are compared with a 1000-year Adansonia digitata rainfall proxy record from the Pafuri region. Deviations between the two are attributed to the juvenile effect, and when these are discounted there is a significant correlation between local and regional rainfall records. This suggests common large-scale synoptic forcing underlies regional rainfall variability, and the decadal-scale variability in the Adansonia digitata records indicates extremely dry conditions in the 1780 to 1840 CE period.
SET
Date of Publication
2019
Physical description
150-160
Title
Journal of African Archaeology
Volume Number
17/2
International Standard Serial Number
2191-5784
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Buffelskloof
Subject Term
Bokoni
Subject Term
rainfall records
Subject Term
resilience
Subject Term
stable carbon isotope
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Byron Aub
Grant Hall
John Burrows
Maria H. Schoeman
Stephan Woodborne
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
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10.1163/21915784-20190015
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[Article]
275578
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