Klasies River Main Site: Coastal Environment Diversity in Middle and Late Stone Age Seal and Fish Harvesting Practices

This research project will address if coastal resource diversity increased between the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Late Stone Age (LSA) along the southern Cape of South Africa in conjunction with estuary development and changes in the range of cold-water fishes. I will analyze fish teeth, seal teeth, and otoliths from the MSA using carbon and oxygen stable isotope analyses and fish bone collagen from the LSA using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses. This application is for a destructive analysis permit for seal tooth enamel, catfish otoliths, and fish bone from Klasies River Main Site along the Tsitsikamma coast, in the Humansdorp district of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.