Palaeoproteomics on non-identifiable medium bovid bones from the Later Stone Age deposits of Diepkloof Rock Shelter and Faraoskop Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa.

This application relates to the PhD project of Humphrey Nyambiya, which investigates the influence of herding practices on Later Stone Age foragers’ subsistence strategies in the Western Cape of South Africa. I am submitting this application to SAHRIS on his behalf and on behalf of the colleagues involved in this research: Prof. John Parkington and Louisa Hutten from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town; Dr. Sara Rhodes (co-supervisor of the PhD candidate) from the Universidade do Algarve in Portugal; and Dr. Louise Le Meillour from the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Together, we are applying to SAHRIS for a permit to export non-identifiable medium-sized bovid bones from Diepkloof Rock Shelter and Faraoskop Rock Shelter to be analysed using palaeoproteomics at the Globe Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. The specimens (n = 100 from Diepkloof and n = 47 from Faraoskop) come from the Terminal Holocene (Later Stone Age) deposits at both sites, located in the Western Cape of South Africa.